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9780415927659

The Medicine Line: Life and Death on a North American Borderland

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415927659

  • ISBN10:

    041592765X

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Nonspecific Binding
  • Copyright: 2002-02-22
  • Publisher: Routledge

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The Medicine Line: Life and Death on the North American Borderland, is a complex and oftentimes dramatic mix of narrative storytelling and history in which ironies are explored, patterns of deed and response are uncovered, examined and evaluated...Beth Ladow is a compelling stylist who writes with warmth and insight, and she has given us a smart book, which will help us understand one another, and a good read. We need more books like this one. -- William Kittredge, Author of THE NATURE OF GENOROSITY(knopf,2000)

Author Biography

Beth LaDow is an independent scholar and writer and occasional commentator for National Public Radio in Boston. She carned her M.A. in History at Harvard University and her Ph.D. at Brandeis, and now lives in Winchester, Massachusetts, and West Glacier, Montana

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix
Prologue: Through the Looking Glass xi
Drawing the Line
1(22)
The ``Melting Pot of Hell''
23(20)
Sanctuary
43(30)
If You Build It, Will They Come?
73(16)
Which Side Are You On?
89(14)
A Living or a Way of Life?
103(20)
What Are We Fighting For?
123(26)
The Cosmopolitan Throng
149(24)
``We Can Play Baseball on the Other Side''
173(20)
Nature's ``Incivilities''
193(20)
Epilogue: Wallace Stegner and the North American West 213(6)
Notes 219(46)
Index 265

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