Miles from nowhere : tales from America's contemporary frontier
"In this splendid book a gifted observer and a terrific idea have come together in a real love match. In 1990, a century after the census bureau's famous observation of the frontier's imminent end, Dayton Duncan set out in an aging GMC Suburban to visit a large sampling of counties outside Alaska that have fewer than two persons per square mile?the bureau's old standard for places still in a frontier condition. There are 132 such counties. All are in the West. . . . The result of his tour is an insightful and entertaining book, troubling and funny and consistently illuminating. . . . Much of the book's charm comes from Duncan's sketches of people who choose to live 'miles from nowhere'?ranchers in the Nebraska sandhills, a New Mexican bar owner, a priest and United Parcel Service driver along the Texas-Mexico border, and the descendant of a Seminole Negro army scout in west Texas. In them he finds characteristics associated with the mythic frontier. . . . Great fun to read."? from the back cover
Print Book, English, [2000]
University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, [2000]
Guidebooks
xiv, 320 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
9780803266278, 0803266278
44019179
Introduction: Travels in a Conestoga
Big Dry
Violence
Escape
Boom and Bust
Below the Irreducible Minimum
Rainbow of the West
El Despoblado
Dumping Ground
Old Frontier, Contemporary Frontier
Originally published: New York : Viking, ©1993
English
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