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More than any other American landscape, the Rocky Mountains have prompted a remarkable medley of fierce, poetic dreams. For some 150 years this region served as a landscape of freedom for the black sheep of our culture: from the rebellious sons of wealthy industrialists to African American trappers; from affluent young women struggling for suffrage to the hippies of the 1960s, determined to turn their backs on the establishment. Gary Ferguson spins magnificent tales about these vivid charactersblazing a trail that leads us finally to modern adventure travelers bedecked in high-tech outerwear and toting satellite phones into the wild. From this spot on the crest of the continent comes a fresh look at how the nation's wild lands inspired some of our most cherished notions of freedom, as well as how much we stand to lose should our connections to those lands drift out of reach. 25 black & white photos, index.

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Book category Books in English Humanities History

• Full title: Great Divide
• Subtitle: A Biography of the Rocky Mountains
• Author: Gary Ferguson
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288
• EAN: 9780881507072
• ISBN: 0881507075
• ID: 04753307
• Publisher: Countryman Press Inc.
• Weight: 666 g
• Dimensions: 250 × 200 × 15 mm
• Date of publishing: 22. May 2006

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