Walking the High Desert : Encounters with Rural America along the Oregon Desert Trail / Ellen Waterston.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Waterston, Ellen, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Oregon--Description and travel.

Oregon.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 online resource xiii, 231 pages)

Place of Publication:

Seattle, Washington : University of Washington Press, [2020]

Summary:

"Fascinated by the recent creation of the 800-mile Oregon Desert Trail, an initiative by the conservation organization Oregon Natural Desert Association to link together and bring attention to eastern Oregon's lesser known but visually spectacular high desert and canyonlands, author Ellen Waterston seeks to write a book that both brings the landscape to the fore and also situates it in terms of the people who live there and care about the land, as well as the conflicts over land that are never far from the surface, such as those that erupted at the Malheur Wildlife Refuge in January 2016. This is a book for general readers seeking a critical look at the way our conversations about land shape a place; it's also a book that evokes the people and natural world of eastern Oregon"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

ONE High Centered

TWO Insomnia

THREE Bad to the Bone

FOUR A Mountain Is Pretty Sure to Figure

WEST BASIN AND RANGE

FIVE Haints

SIX H₂OPE

SEVEN Vapor Trails

EIGHT Rurally Underserved

NINE Losing Language

EAST BASIN AND RANGE

TEN That Cow Smiled at Me

ELEVEN Re-create

TWELVE Feathers and Fins

THIRTEEN What's Your Occupation?

OWYHEE CANYONLANDS

FOURTEEN All Roads Lead to Rome

FIFTEEN High Road

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

SELECTED READING.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780295747514

029574751X

OCLC:

1140356335