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A review by shekispeaks
Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
4.0
Its a project book.
Good book to get a sense of the West - grand struggles, epic landscapes, hardships, manly ambition etc etc.
Story of a marriage, enjoyable but perhaps a bit dated.
A reminder that San Francisco area was never really the west, it was the civilized parts of the west.
Leadville Colorado / Boise Idaho on the other hand was the real west.
Its a weird thing but the white settler man of the 1890s was a weird beast, he wanted to be alone, he wanted to tame the wild, he wanted to homestead and make the world in his own. Are these urges natural? Was a time and place thing? Is it like people wanting to go to mars?
I suppose we owe them a debt to make the west livable, but do we really? In the end the west was primarily settled by the capitalists the syndicates and the governments. The prospectors (like the Oliver in this book) came and set the tone?
Go west young man to make your destiny, go west young woman to suffer hardships (back in the day)
Good book to get a sense of the West - grand struggles, epic landscapes, hardships, manly ambition etc etc.
Story of a marriage, enjoyable but perhaps a bit dated.
A reminder that San Francisco area was never really the west, it was the civilized parts of the west.
Leadville Colorado / Boise Idaho on the other hand was the real west.
Its a weird thing but the white settler man of the 1890s was a weird beast, he wanted to be alone, he wanted to tame the wild, he wanted to homestead and make the world in his own. Are these urges natural? Was a time and place thing? Is it like people wanting to go to mars?
I suppose we owe them a debt to make the west livable, but do we really? In the end the west was primarily settled by the capitalists the syndicates and the governments. The prospectors (like the Oliver in this book) came and set the tone?
Go west young man to make your destiny, go west young woman to suffer hardships (back in the day)