The Medicine Line: Life and Death on a North American Borderland
by LaDow,BethEdition: 1st
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Pub. Date: 2002-02-22
Publisher(s): Routledge
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The Medicine Line: Life and Death on the North American Borderland, is a complex and oftentimes dramatic mix of narrative storytelling and history in which ironies are explored, patterns of deed and response are uncovered, examined and evaluated...Beth Ladow is a compelling stylist who writes with warmth and insight, and she has given us a smart book, which will help us understand one another, and a good read. We need more books like this one. -- William Kittredge, Author of THE NATURE OF GENOROSITY(knopf,2000)
Author Biography
Beth LaDow is an independent scholar and writer and occasional commentator for National Public Radio in Boston. She carned her M.A. in History at Harvard University and her Ph.D. at Brandeis, and now lives in Winchester, Massachusetts, and West Glacier, Montana
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | ix | ||||
| Prologue: Through the Looking Glass | xi | ||||
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149 | (24) | |||
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| Epilogue: Wallace Stegner and the North American West | 213 | (6) | |||
| Notes | 219 | (46) | |||
| Index | 265 |
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