Lasso the Wind: Away to the New West (repost)
Lasso the Wind: Away to the New West By Timothy Egan
Publisher: Vin.ta.ge 1999 | 288 Pages | ISBN: 067978182X | EPUB | 2 MB
Publisher: Vin.ta.ge 1999 | 288 Pages | ISBN: 067978182X | EPUB | 2 MB
The American West has always been as much a symbol as a location; as much a myth as a destination. "If land and religion are what people most often kill each other over," writes Timothy Egan, "then the West is different only in that the land is the religion. As such, the basic struggle is between the West of possibility and the West of possession." This struggle for possession is a recurring theme in Lasso the Wind, involving individuals such as Kit Laney, the "Last Cowboy in America," who defiantly refuses to pay for grazing rights on public land; Patricia Mulroy, the head of the Southern Nevada Water Authority, who works to bring more water to Las Vegas' casinos, golf courses, and subdivisions, even if it means damming the Virgin River running through Zion National Park in Utah; and Robert P. McCulloch, a zealous developer who reassembled each stone of the London Bridge in the Arizona desert in an attempt to draw people to his contrived dream town.