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Mountain Blood
The recollections and yarns, historical meditations and reportage brought together in Mountain Blood display a sensibility formed by the harsh, outlandishly beautiful terrain of the American West. Will Baker’s tales range from Nebraska to Peru and tell of a boy’s first trout, a bar brawl over a woman, and the vise-like grip of gold over all of the Americas. They spring from an imagination shaped by wild, circuitous mealtime stories of prospectors and from the bitter history of a place where suburban ranch houses dot the vast sweep of land once hunted by the Lakotah.
192 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1986
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Will Baker
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August 25, 2016
An enjoyable collection of essays and travelogue where the author mixes his personal tales with other bits of history and stories. I can't remember how I came across this book, but I'm glad to have found this little-remembered book. The long piece at the end where the author travels to gold mines in Mexico was particularly interesting. Also, "Father White Mouse" was a fabulous piece. It seemed almost out of place in this collection, but I really enjoyed it.
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