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Author: Geoffrey O'Gara Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 0307766454 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 308
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The Wind River runs from the alpine lakes of the Continental Divide through the nestled valleys of the northern Rocky Mountains and out onto high, windblown plains. More than a century ago, in what would become Wyoming, the federal government set aside 44 million acres on which to confine the unrelated Shoshone and Arapaho tribes. By now the Wind River Reservation has been reduced to 2.3 million acres, but the battle over control of this land--and especially the river that runs through it--is far from over. In this magnificent watershed, Geoffrey O'Gara--"a touching, wise, and penetrating writer," according to Edward Hoagland--sets a remarkable story that illuminates the larger, unfinished struggle for the heart of the West. He ranges from the Indian wars to the present day, and from the nineteenth-century Shoshone chief Washakie to his great-grandson, now head of the tribal council; and he also traces the complex legal struggle over water rights--for generations monopolized by white farmers for irrigation--that after two decades is still unresolved. At the heart of O'Gara's account are the citizens of Wind River itself, the people on the various sides of the many complex conflicts: the tragedy and resilience of the nine thousand Shoshone and Arapaho contending with the depredations of reservation life and the indifference of those who first took their land and have gradually assumed control of their water. In all, this is a powerful, moving story of great relevance and guarded promise, of nations with different languages, cultures, and birthrights, still searching for a way to live together.
Author: Geoffrey O'Gara Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 0307766454 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 308
Book Description
The Wind River runs from the alpine lakes of the Continental Divide through the nestled valleys of the northern Rocky Mountains and out onto high, windblown plains. More than a century ago, in what would become Wyoming, the federal government set aside 44 million acres on which to confine the unrelated Shoshone and Arapaho tribes. By now the Wind River Reservation has been reduced to 2.3 million acres, but the battle over control of this land--and especially the river that runs through it--is far from over. In this magnificent watershed, Geoffrey O'Gara--"a touching, wise, and penetrating writer," according to Edward Hoagland--sets a remarkable story that illuminates the larger, unfinished struggle for the heart of the West. He ranges from the Indian wars to the present day, and from the nineteenth-century Shoshone chief Washakie to his great-grandson, now head of the tribal council; and he also traces the complex legal struggle over water rights--for generations monopolized by white farmers for irrigation--that after two decades is still unresolved. At the heart of O'Gara's account are the citizens of Wind River itself, the people on the various sides of the many complex conflicts: the tragedy and resilience of the nine thousand Shoshone and Arapaho contending with the depredations of reservation life and the indifference of those who first took their land and have gradually assumed control of their water. In all, this is a powerful, moving story of great relevance and guarded promise, of nations with different languages, cultures, and birthrights, still searching for a way to live together.
Author: Geoffrey O'Gara Publisher: National Geographic Books ISBN: 0679735828 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 0
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For nearly a century, the Indians on the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming have been battling their white farmer neighbors over the rights to the Wind River. What You See in Clear Water tells the story of this epic struggle, shedding light on the ongoing conflict over water rights in the American West, one of the most divisive and essential issues in America today. While lawyers argued this landmark case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, Geoffrey O’Gara walked the banks of the river with the farmers, ranchers, biologists, and tribal elders who knew it intimately. Reading his account, we come to know the impoverished Shoshone and Arapaho tribes living on the Wind River Reservation, who believe that by treaty they control the water within the reservation. We also meet the farmers who have struggled for decades to scratch a living from the arid soil, and who want to divert the river water to irrigate their lands. O’Gara’s empathetic portrayal of life in the West today, the historical texture he brings to the land and its inhabitants, and the common humanity he finds between hostile neighbors on opposite sides of the river make What You See in Clear Water an unusually rich and rewarding book.
Author: Cookie Mueller Publisher: MIT Press ISBN: 1635901677 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 434
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The first collected edition of legendary writer, actress, and adventurer Cookie Mueller's stories, featuring the entire contents of her 1990 book Walking through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black, alongside more than two dozen others, some previously unpublished. Legendary as an underground actress, female adventurer, and East Village raconteur, Cookie Mueller's first calling was to the written word: "I started writing when I was six and have never stopped completely," she once confessed. Muellerís 1990 Walking through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black, the first volume of the Semiotext(e) Native Agents series, was the largest collection of stories she compiled during her life. But it presented only a slice of Mueller's prolific work as a writer. This new, landmark volume collects all of Mueller's stories: from the original contents of Clear Water, to additional stories discovered by Amy Scholder for the posthumous anthology Ask Dr. Mueller, to selections from Mueller's art and advice columns for Details and the East Village Eye, to still "new" stories collected and published here for the first time. Olivia Laing's new introduction situates Mueller's writing within the context of her life—and our times. Thanks to recent documentaries like Mallory Curley's A Cookie Mueller Encyclopedia and Chloé Griffin's oral biography Edgewise, Mueller's life and work have been discovered by a new generation of readers. Walking through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black: Collected Stories returns essential source material to these readers, the archive of Mueller's writing itself. Mueller's many mise en scènes—the Baltimore of John Waters, post-Stonewall Provincetown, avant-garde Italy, 1980s New York, an America enduring Reagan and AIDS—patches together a singular personal history and a primer for others. As Laing writes in her introduction, Collected Stories amounts to "a how-to manual for a life ricocheting joyously off the rails . . . a live corrective to conformity, conservatism, and cruelty."
Author: B Celeste Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 404
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I used his body to forget the pain until the line we drew was buried under muddied water.I used to believe in three things: That true love only existed once, heartbreak couldn't kill you, and everything happened for a reason.But if that were true, I never would have watched Daniel McCray get married to another woman, have a beautiful baby girl, and pass away before my very eyes. Everything I believed was I lie.Until I met them.
Author: Thomas Cole Edwards Publisher: Booklocker.Com Incorporated ISBN: 9781591137306 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 256
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A seemingly innocent investigation on the idyllic Caribbean island of Pandu is suddenly transformed into a plot with international implications.
Author: Edith Payne Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 0244994528 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 416
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Young Finley Bathbourne, distraught by his father's transportation to New South Wales on a dubious charge of poaching, vows to rescue and return him to British shores. A sea Journey aboard a prison ship, taking more than 12 months, introduces the callow youth to the adult pleasures of Rio de Janeiro's nightlife and the terrifying thunderous seas of the roaring forties transforming him, at just 16 years of age, from adolescence to manhood. The return journey, via India and Cape Town, is fraught with impediment and sadness. His only reward is his father's instruction to seek the meaning of clearwater from his mother on his return to England. However, during his absence Colonel Clewer, who was responsible for his father's imprisonment, instructs the watchman to arrest Finley on his arrival back in the county. Gaining sanctuary in the local church he thwarts the colonel's intentions but exposes some deep secrets which have significant effects on his future.
Author: Colleen Thompson Publisher: Harlequin ISBN: 0369713974 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 272
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It's the reunion of his life… Until someone wants him dead Finally back together with his children, widower Mac Hale-Walker faces an unexpected obstacle: their temporary guardian. Social worker Sara Wakefield stands in the way of Mac regaining custody. He'll stop at nothing to prove he's a loving dad, even figure out who's threatening his bond with his family. But can Mac manage to clear the danger swirling around Clearwater Crossing before it engulfs them all? From Harlequin Romantic Suspense: Danger. Passion. Drama. Feel the excitement in these uplifting romances, part of the Lost Legacy series: Book 1: Danger at Clearwater Crossing
Author: Catherine Ennis Publisher: Bella Books ISBN: 1594936897 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 131
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A family tragedy is the only reason Dr. Bernadette Hebert has returned to Clearwater, Louisiana. The murder of a man she has long hated doesn't sadden her, but if she refused to go she'd have to tell her partner why. Being from Clearwater means Bernie knows how to keep a secret. A bloodstained list of license plate numbers brings Bernie face to face with Carly Harrell, candidate for Clearwater Mayor. Once upon a time Bernadette had loved Carly, but the reunion is fraught with suspicion. Carly's from Clearwater, which means she has secrets too. Her political life may be promising, but her feelings for campaign worker Laura Lee threaten everything. Secrets seem to have been the dead man's specialty. In Clearwater, Louisiana, secrets are power...or a motive for murder.
Author: Geoffrey O'Gara
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