Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs Living and Writing in the West

by Stegner, Wallace; Watkins, T.H.

• ISBN13: 9780375759321
• ISBN10: 0375759328
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-04-09
• Publisher: Modern Library

Summary

Nominated for a National Book Critics Circle award,Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springsgathers 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 protect 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.

Author Biography

<b>T. H. Watkins</b> (1936–2000) was the first Wallace Stegner Dis-tinguished Professor of Western American Studies at Montana State University. Watkins wrote twenty-eight books on history, the environment, and nature, including <i>Righteous Pilgrim: The Life of Harold Ickes</i>, which won a <i>Los Angeles Times</i> Book Award.

Table of Contents

Biographical Note
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Personal
Finding the Place: A Migrant Childhood	p. 3
Letter, Much Too Late	p. 22
Crossing into Eden	p. 34
Habitat
Thoughts in a Dry Land	p. 45
Living Dry	p. 57
Striking the Rock	p. 76
Variations on a Theme by Crevecoeur	p. 99
A Capsule History of Conservation	p. 117
Witnesses
Coming of Age: The End of the Beginning	p. 135
On Steinbeck's Story "Flight"	p. 143
George R. Stewart and the American Land	p. 155
Walter Clark's Frontier	p. 172
Haunted by Waters: Norman Maclean	p. 190
The Sense of Place	p. 199
A Letter to Wendell Berry	p. 207
The Law of Nature and the Dream of Man: Ruminations on the Art of Fiction	p. 214
Afterword	p. 229
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