One Man's West

Name: One Man's West
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ISBN: 9780803260306

ISBN-10: 080326030X

ISBN-13: 9780803260306

Edition: 2nd 2007

Authors: David Lavender, David G. Lavender, David Lavender, David W. Lavender

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The American West of the 1930s and 1940s was still a place of prospectors, cowboys, ranchers, and mountaineers, one that demanded backbreaking, lonely, and dangerous work. Still, midcentury pioneers such as David Lavender remembered "not the cold and the cruel fatigue, but rather the multitude of tiny things which in their sum make up the elemental poetry of rock and ice and snow." And as the nation exhausted its gold and silver veins, as law reached the boomtowns on the frontier, and as the era of the great cattle ranches and drives came to an end, Lavender felt compelled to document his experiences in rugged southwest Colorado to preserve this rapidly disappearing way of life. "One Man's…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Publication date: 10/1/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.24" wide x 7.99" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.902
Language: English

David Lavender (1910–2003) was a historian of the American West whose many books includeThe Way to the Western Sea: Lewis and Clark across the Continent,Westward Vision: The Story of the Oregon Trail, andBent’s Fort, all available in Bison Books editions.nbsp;David G. Lavender is the author’s son and David W. Lavender is the author’s grandson.