SEEING THE MOUUNTAIN WEST
A LOPSIDED VIEW
by
Philip J. Davis
"This wild country spoke a language other than mine." --- Owen Wister
"Et in Arcadia ego." --- Anon.
For Sue Wesley
Unpublished, 1980.
Table of Contents
- Front Matter
- Introduction: The Region Defined
- First Night in the West, or Sir:
Your Waterbed is Leaing.
- Third Night in the West, or Sir:
Your Aridity is Flowing
- Swarming Jerusalem in the Bosom
of Solitude; Salt Lake City
- Eat, Drink, and Be Merry, for
Tomorrow You may be in Utah
- Las Cruces, New Mexico; Pocatello, Idaho;
Idaho Falls, Idaho; Malad City, Idaho
- "Closed In Winter"
- Pica pica hudsonis
- Albequerque, New Mexico
- Bill Jack
- Acoma Pueblo
- Grants, New Mexico
- Mormons, Unitarians, Profs:
Social Notes from Salt Lake City
- Shaggy Moose Story
- Moab, Utah
- Arches National Park
- Four Corners
- Mesa Verde, Colorado
- Durango, Colorado
- Green River, Utah
- Smilin' Through: La Fanciula del West
- Western Garb
- Western Twang
- Claremont, California: I Hear You
- The Bishop of California
- Western Mystagogue
- Botanical Notes
- The Great Salt Lake
- The Land of the Silver Dollar
- Western Dishes
- Rodeo: Jackson Hole, Wyoming
- Western Bear Story with a Do-It-Yourself Punch
Line
- The Quintessential West: Laramie, Wyoming
- Mules and Desperados
- Mausoleum for the Leatherbound
- "The Virginian"; Medicine Bow, Wyoming
- Medicine Bow
- Wagon Wheels
- The Ames Monument
- West is the Quest
- Little Big Horn, Montana
- Salt Lake City -- Good Bye