William Kittredge

   WHO OWNS THE WEST?
       
 

WHO OWNS THE WEST?
Essays/Western Region
176 pages
Paper, $14.95
1-56279-078-1
US & Canada

 

   Who owns the West? "All of us, of course," says William Kittredge. But this "simple answer … is sort of beside the point when we get down to considering questions of fairness. Stay joyous under the sun and moon, in the rain and out; that's another halfway answer."

Kittredge gives us not easy answers but a sustained meditation on what it means to be a Westerner today. The three essays in Who Owns the West? compose both a celebration of the new West and an elegy for an old West that is fading.
"His prose is spare and clean as ever, with one quotable line after another and elegant descriptions of place."
— Los Angeles Times

"When I think about our beloved American West and the challenges we face as a people, I hear Bill Kittredge's voice. Within these pages we find both our instructions and inspiration on how to proceed."
— Terry Tempest Williams

       
       
 

  WILLIAM KITTREDGE grew up on the MC Ranch in southeastern Oregon, where he lived until he was thirty-five. His books include Hole in the Sky, Owning It All, and We Are Not in This Together. He teaches at the University of Montana in Missoula.