Sacagawea's Nickname: Essays on the American West - Hardcover

McMurtry, Larry; McMurtry, L.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0940322927 ISBN 13: 9780940322929

Publisher: New York Review of Books, 2001

Synopsis

The author of Lonesome Dove and other great novels about the American West takes readers on a non-fiction exploration of his favorite region, sharing eleven essays originally published in The New Yorker.

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About the Author:

Larry McMurtry is the author of twenty-four novels, including _Lonesome Dove_, winner of the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. His non-fiction works include _In a Narrow Grave: Essays on Texas_ (1989), _Crazy Horse_ (1999), _Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen_ (1999), _Roads: Driving America's Great Highways_ (2000), and, most recently, _Paradise_ (2001). He lives in Archer City, Texas.

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"In the essays that follow--though I do attempt to acknowledge two remarkable western women, the poet-novelist Janet Lewis (died age ninety-nine) and the historian Angie Debo (died age ninety-eight)--I have not directly concerned myself with literature. Man may have seven ages, but the West has had only three: the age of Heroes (Lewis and Clark), the age of Publicity (Buffalo Bill), and the age of Suburbia, for which the preferred new term is Urban Sprawl. How we got from the first age to the third, and what we destroyed in the process, is a story historians will be worrying for a long time. Myself, I still mainly like to look." from the Introduction

About this edition

• Publisher: New York Review of Books
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0940322927
• ISBN 13: 9780940322929
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 160