The Great Divide: A Biography of the Rocky Mountains

More than any other American landscape, the Rocky Mountains have prompted a remarkable medley of fierce, poetic dreams. For some 150 years this region served as a landscape of freedom for the black sheep of our culture: from the rebellious sons of wealthy industrialists to African American trappers; from affluent young women struggling for suffrage to the hippies of the 1960s, determined to turn their backs on the establishment. Gary Ferguson spins magnificent tales about these vivid charactersblazing a trail that leads us finally to modern adventure travelers bedecked in high-tech outerwear and toting satellite phones into the wild. From this spot on the crest of the continent comes a fresh look at how the nation's wild lands inspired some of our most cherished notions of freedom, as well as how much we stand to lose should our connections to those lands drift out of reach. 25 black

Author: Gary Ferguson
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 07/01/2006
Pages: 298
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.84lbs
Size: 8.18h x 5.62w x 0.85d
ISBN: 9780881507072