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Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs: Living and Writing in the West
Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs Living and Writing in the West Author:Wallace Stegner Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs gathers together Wallace Stegner’s most important and memorable writings on the American West: its landscapes, diverse history, and shifting identity; its beauty, fragility, and power. — With subjects ranging from the writer’s own “migrant childhood” to the need to pr... more »otect what remains of the great western wilderness (which Stegner dubs “the geography of hope”) to poignant profiles of western writers such as John Steinbeck and Norman Maclean, this collection is a riveting testament to the power of place. At the same time it communicates vividly the sensibility and range of this most gifted of American writers, historians, and environmentalists.
I. Personal --
Finding the Place: A Migrant Childhood --
Letter, Much Too Late --
Crossing into Eden --
II. Habitat --
Thoughts in a Dry Land --
Living Dry --
Striking the Rock --
Variations on a Theme by Crevecoeur --
A Capsule History of Conservation --
III. Witnesses --
Coming of Age: The End of the Beginning --
On Steinbeck's Story "Flight" --
George R. Stewart and the American Land --
Walter Clark's Frontier --
Haunted by Waters: Norman Maclean --
The Sense of Place --
A Letter to Wendell Berry --
The Law of Nature and the Dream of Man: Ruminations on the Art of Fiction --