Riding the White Horse Home: A Western Family Album - Softcover

Jordan, Teresa

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0679751351 ISBN 13: 9780679751359

Publisher: Vintage Departures, 1994

Synopsis

The daughter and granddaughter of Wyoming ranchers, Teresa Jordan gives us a lyrical and superbly evocative book that is at once a family chronicle and a eulogy for the land her people helped shape and in time were forced to leave. Author readings.

About this title

About the Author:

Teresa Jordan, an author and artist, is best known for her memoir Riding the White Horse Home as well as Field Notes from Yosemite: Apprentice to Place, Field Notes from the Grand Canyon: Raging River, Quiet Mind, Cowgirls: Women of the American West, and The Year of Living Virtuously (Weekends Off). She resides in Utah with her husband.

From Kirkus Reviews:

A heartfelt tribute to the Wyoming family ranch on which Jordan (Cowgirls, 1982) was raised, and to the hardy people who chose that difficult way of life. Part of the proud fourth generation to run cattle on the high, windswept prairie of Iron Mountain, Wyoming, Jordan was also a sad witness to the end of that tradition as the ranch passed out of her family's hands in 1978, lost in an irreversible trend that shrank the local population from 2,000 at the turn of the century to 30 today. Images of a childhood fondly remembered--the awe-inspiring view from a local landmark, time spent with the oldest family members--combine with more unpleasant recollections, such as the sudden death of Jordan's mother and the subsequent sale of the ranch. The memories appear in the context of more recent events, including the author's 1991 wedding on the ranch and an earlier return to Iron Mountain to take part in the calving season. Linking past and present intricately and intimately, describing family dynamics as well as the vicissitudes of everyday existence, Jordan creates both a bittersweet personal chronicle and a record of an endangered lifestyle, with the critical role of female forebears receiving particular attention. A sensitive, colorful series of contemplations, ultimately more impressionistic than cohesive but still a valuable rendering of family life and ranching in the American West. (Ten pages of b&w photographs--not seen.) -- Copyright ©1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage Departures
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0679751351
• ISBN 13: 9780679751359
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 242