| Red Hole in Time Contributor(s): Marshall, Muriel (Author) |
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ISBN: 0890963320 ISBN-13: 9780890963326 Publisher: Texas A&M University Press OUR PRICE: $23.70 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 1988 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - State & Local - General |
| Dewey: 978.817 |
| LCCN: 87021715 |
| Series: Essays on the America West |
| Physical Information: 0.94" H x 6.04" W x 8.94" (1.10 lbs) 312 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Western U.S. - Geographic Orientation - Utah - Cultural Region - Plains |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Escalante Canyon is a red-walled hole in a geologic uplift (the Uncompahgre Plateau) in western Colorado. Pioneers surging west fell into this canyon hole the way gold nuggets get caught in the potholes of a stream. Like nuggets eddying against stone, they were shaped by the Canyon--rounded off, shattered, or tossed away, according to how they conformed or resisted. Indeed, treasure richer than gold settled into that hole in time; in the onrushing current of history the lifestyle--the Old West--settled and still survives there--in fact, in artifact, and in living memories. The tale of the canyon is a tale of struggle, change, frontier friendship, and enmity that is part of the story of the West itself: Anglo settlement; conflict between cowman, nester, and sheep man; epidemics; hardships; loneliness. Many of its stories, though, are tantalizing episodes unique to this place, laced with oddity and tragedy. Using as digging tools the camera, tape recorder, diaries, memoirs, and a hundred years of old newspapers, Marshall has mined more gold than the first prospectors ever suspected lay in that mysterious red hole. |