In Search of Kinship (HB) Modern Pioneering on the Western Landscape

by Lambert, Page

• ISBN13: 9781555912666
• ISBN10: 1555912664
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-03-01
• Publisher: Chicago Review Press - Fulcrum

Summary

In the tradition of Terry Tempest Williams, Gretel Ehrlich, and Linda Hasselstrom, Page Lambert looks to the West in a wide-ranging search for a heritage to pass on to her children. When she and her husband move their young family north to Wyoming from Colorado, they transplant five generations of family roots to new soil but find that it is ancient land - land that the Lakota, the Crow, the Cheyenne still consider sacred. Page Lambert is an authentic voice of this land, and in telling her story, she tells the story of the West. In writing about loss of a heritage and the quest to find it anew, she speaks of ranching traditions and Native American beliefs that go back many generations and of the cycles of life and death so elemental to ranchers. She tells of learning about her deaf grandmother Effie, a young wife pioneering in the Mojave Desert, and about her grandmother Helen, whose own trail of ancestral tears has meaning for Page. As she and her family face heartbreak and ultimately prevail, Lambert finds balance and strength from the one unbending link to the future: the land itself.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Preface: The Dawning of Connection	xi
Prologue: The Barn Inherited	xvii
The Migration	1	(7)
The Forked Path	8	(8)
Planting Roots, Raising Logs	16	(10)
Inside Out	26	(7)
Old Shadows, New Stories	33	(6)
Simon	39	(7)
Eagle Feathers and Wounded Spirits	46	(7)
If Trees Could Talk	53	(4)
Deerstalking	57	(6)
Forced to Trade	63	(5)
Elusive Prey	68	(6)
Turkey Tracks	74	(4)
Red Suspenders	78	(5)
The Dance Goes On	83	(4)
Growing Velvet	87	(6)
Sassy	93	(4)
Purring	97	(6)
The Picture Window	103	(4)
Black Jack	107	(6)
The Red Shirt	113	(4)
Nothing Between Us	117	(5)
Wooly Livestock	122	(4)
Renewals	126	(4)
Lambing	130	(9)
Layers of Time	139	(8)
Porcupine Dusk	147	(5)
Home Fires	152	(5)
Gifts	157	(3)
Gathering Bones	160	(4)
Redy's Foal	164	(3)
Our Own Cows	167	(4)
The Longhorn Calf	171	(4)
Rites	175	(15)
Hondo	190	(10)
Call of Duty	200	(5)
The Act of Healing	205	(4)
A Crippled Legacy	209	(5)
Raising Meat	214	(3)
Incarnate	217	(6)
Big Red and the Reisland	223	(8)
Stone Stories	231	(4)
The Barn Bequeathed	235	(3)
Epilogue: The Song of Songs Which Is Wyoming's	238	(5)
Notes	243