Jeffrey D. Nichols

The Arches Reader

Herausgeber: Nichols, Jeffrey D

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Produktbeschreibung

An anthology of writing about Arches National Park and the surrounding area. The selections range from creative nonfiction to short fiction to poetry to amateur versions of scientific reports; they are wide-ranging and have never before been collected in one place; several selections are previously unpublished.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Utah Press
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 224mm x 150mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9781647691394
• ISBN-10: 1647691397
• Artikelnr.: 69640939

Autorenporträt

Jeffrey D. Nichols is professor of history at Westminster University. He is the author of Prostitution, Polygamy, and Power and co-editor of Playing with Shadows: Voices of Dissent in the Mormon West.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* 1. Edward Abbey, The First Morning (1968)
* 2. Amy Irvine, The First Morning, A Reply (2018)
* Part I: The Place of Rainbows
* 3. Arthur Winslow, A Natural Bridge in Utah (1898)
* 4. Joseph C. Anderson, Geology of Arches (1934)
* 5. Raye Ringholz, Bonanza at Big Indian (2002)
* 6. Frank A. Beckwith, 17-Year-Old Youth Finds Dinosaur Bones While
Herding Cows (1934)
* 7. D. Elden Beck, Biology on Horseback (1947)
* 8. Brooke Williams, The Colorado: Archetypal River (2014)
* 9. Edward Abbey, Cliffrose and Bayonets (1968)
* 10. Gerald Callahan, Almost Like Dancing (1998)
* 11. Sam Webster, Mountain Lion (2011)
* 12. Terry Tempest Williams, Winter Solstice at the Moab Slough (1993)
* Part II: Living and Working in Arches
* 13. Descendants of Arches' First Peoples (2016)
* 14. Tom McCourt and Wade Allinson, Quit-sub-soc-its (2017)
* 15. Mary Langworthy, William Grandstaff, African-American
Frontiersman (2022)
* 16. Esther Stanley Rison, Wolfe Ranch Memories (ca. 1977)
* 17. B. W. Allred, The Life of a Horse and Buggy Stage Line Operator
(1972)
* Part III: A Wonder for the World
* 18. Alexander Ringhoffer, The Man who Discovered the Devil’s Garden
(1928)
* 19. John F. Hoffman, Devil’s Garden: The Case of the Perambulating
Place-name or, How Arches Became Part of the National Park System
(1981)
* 20. Frank A. Beckwith, Good Roads (1933-1934)
* 21. Managing the Monument: Excerpts from Custodians’ and
Superintendents’ Reports, Arches National Monument (1940s-1950s)
* 22. Jack Breed, Utah’s Arches of Stone (1947)
* 23. Mitch Williams’s Story (2004)
* 24. Tug Wilson Remembers (2012)
* 25. Caroline Wilson Remembers (2012)
* 26. Jim Stiles, Quiet Times at Arches National Monument (2013)
* 27. Jim Stiles, Ken Sleight Remembers: Arches (2016)
* 28. James Swensen, Life comes to Arches: Josef Muench’s 1953
Photograph of Delicate Arch, Utah (2022)
* 29. Tom Till, Tom Till’s Arches (2022)
* 30. Visitors on the Trail (1953, 2008, 2010)
* 31. Commendations and Complaints (1978, 1987)
* 32. Reactions to the Expansion of Arches (1969)
* 33. Jim Webster, Where There’s a Will, There’s a Way (2015)
* 34. Noel Poe, Dealing with Cremains (2016)
* 35. Doug Travers, The Very Original Arch Hunter (1969)
* 36. Jim Stiles, The “Stabilization” of Delicate Arch (2015)
* 37. Tom Sloan, New Arches Opposed (?)(1977)
* 38. Correspondent Todd, Arched Entrance Arches Eyebrows (1987)
* 39. Bruce Hamilton, Edward Abbey, Druid of the Arches (1976)
* 40. Ken Sanders, The Pasty White Shellfish Comes to Arches National
Park (2022)
* 41. Jim Stiles, Tourists in the Vortex (2007)
* 42. Tourists Bite Back (2015)
* Part IV: Imagining Arches
* 43. José Knighton, Near Delicate Arch (1979)
* 44. David Feela, A picture is worth, maybe, 25 cents (2011)
* 45. Rebecca Bailey, Wall Arch (2016)
* 46. Erica Olsen, Adventure Highway (2012)
* 47. Natasha Sajé, a meeting (2016)
* 48. Terry Tempest Williams, The Coyote Clan (1989)
* Timeline
* Further Reading
* Acknowledgements
* Sources and Permissions