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050 00 PS3552.A8213|bZ477 2008 
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100 1  Bass, Rick,|d1958- 
245 10 Why I came West /|cRick Bass. 
264  1 Boston :|bHoughton Mifflin Co.,|c[2008] 
264  4 |c©2008 
300    238 pages ;|c22 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
505 0  Why I came West -- Landscape and imagination -- Meat -- 
       The question -- The community of glaciers -- Wood -- Oil -
       - The poison of language -- Fourteen gardens -- Who we are,
       what we do -- Bear spray stories -- Rebecca's "My hair is 
       on fire" lobster soup -- Threshold. 
520    A poignant look at the thirty-year journey of one of our 
       country's great naturalist writers, Why I Came West 
       explores how Rick Bass fell in love with the mystique of 
       the West (and the Yaak Valley of northwestern Montana in 
       particular) as a dramatic landscape, as an idea, and as a 
       way of life. In a series of moving chapters, Bass 
       describes his own transformation into the writer, hunter, 
       and environmental activist that he is today. He profiles 
       how the rugged, wild landscape smoothed out his own rough 
       edges; attempts to define the appeal of the West that so 
       transfixed him as a boy, a place of mountains and outlaws 
       and continual rebirth, just beyond whatever was near it; 
       and he describes his role as a reluctant environmental 
       activist--sometimes at odds with his own neighbors--unable
       and unwilling to stand idly by and watch this treasured 
       place disappear. -- From publisher description. 
600 10 Bass, Rick,|d1958- 
600 10 Bass, Rick,|d1958-|xHomes and haunts|zMontana|zYaak 
       Valley. 
650  0 Authors, American|y20th century|vBiography. 
650  0 Authorship. 
994    90|bGWK