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(4.15) | Keine | In 1886, Teresa Jordan's great-grandfather J.L. Jordan left Maryland for the West. It was on Wyoming's Iron Mountain that the Jordan ranch began and survived for nearly a hundred years. Riding the White Horse Home is Teresa Jordan's story of four generations of her family's devotion to the land, a devotion that required at once physical courage and psychic endurance. She celebrates the strength and character of the women of her family - her mother, grandmother, and great-aunts; the men - her father, grandfather, and great-grandfather; and the ranch hands - the hay crew, cooks, and cowboys. With reverence and grace, Teresa Jordan uses the history of her family to mirror the demise of a quintessential American way of life. This is not only Teresa Jordan's family history, it is every Western family's story: it is the story of the American West. Teresa Jordan writes of her family and of finding her place within its history with warmth, sincerity, and pride. It is only after she leaves Wyoming that she begins to understand the women of her history - some who were shoehorned into the only lives they could imagine, others who found ways to create the lives they wanted - and to discover where she belongs. Teresa Jordan's essays in Riding the White Horse Home are eloquent homage to her history and to ours as well.… (mehr) |
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Die Informationen stammen von der englischen "Wissenswertes"-Seite. Ändern, um den Eintrag der eigenen Sprache anzupassen. On the prairies there appeared the Phantom Horse of the West, the Ghostly Horse of the Plains, the Vision Horse of the Lakota Nation, the Rainbow Horse of the Navajo, the Iron Horse of the railroad companies, the Great White Horse Silver of the Lone Ranger, the White Steed of the Prairie. In one thousand places and in one thousand guises the White Steed has been seen. He has been reported on the Brazos River in Texas and in the High Sierras of California. For nearly a century he has ranged over the prairies and the mountains of the West as an apparition. Hundreds of stories about him have appeared in magazines and books. But no one has ever captured him. No one ever will. It is no more possible to capture him than it is for us to recapture our lost innocence. --Stan Steiner "Dark and Dashing Horsemen", 1981 | |
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Die Informationen stammen von der englischen "Wissenswertes"-Seite. Ändern, um den Eintrag der eigenen Sprache anzupassen. For my family by blood The Jordans, Steeles, and Lannens And my family by landscape The People of Iron Mountain | |
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Die Informationen stammen von der englischen "Wissenswertes"-Seite. Ändern, um den Eintrag der eigenen Sprache anzupassen. As a young child, I used to walk the blue hogback ridges near my family's ranch in the Iron Mountain country of southeastern Wyoming with my great-grandmother, looking for fossils and arrowheads. | |
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Die Informationen stammen von der englischen "Wissenswertes"-Seite. Ändern, um den Eintrag der eigenen Sprache anzupassen. ...that's sort of how the land is, in a rural life--generous but persnickety, too, not wanting to give you everything you ask for lest you get the big head or forget who's really in control (p 201) The stories that had shaped me informed me that I could have personal accomplishment or a happy marriage--I could not have both...I didn't have a story that told me I could be visible and not end up alone. (p 194-195) My great-aunt Marie and my great-grandmother were women who had learned to see...These women make me train my own eye. These women make me write. (p17-18) | |
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▾Literaturhinweise Literaturhinweise zu diesem Werk aus externen Quellen. Wikipedia auf EnglischKeine ▾Buchbeschreibungen In 1886, Teresa Jordan's great-grandfather J.L. Jordan left Maryland for the West. It was on Wyoming's Iron Mountain that the Jordan ranch began and survived for nearly a hundred years. Riding the White Horse Home is Teresa Jordan's story of four generations of her family's devotion to the land, a devotion that required at once physical courage and psychic endurance. She celebrates the strength and character of the women of her family - her mother, grandmother, and great-aunts; the men - her father, grandfather, and great-grandfather; and the ranch hands - the hay crew, cooks, and cowboys. With reverence and grace, Teresa Jordan uses the history of her family to mirror the demise of a quintessential American way of life. This is not only Teresa Jordan's family history, it is every Western family's story: it is the story of the American West. Teresa Jordan writes of her family and of finding her place within its history with warmth, sincerity, and pride. It is only after she leaves Wyoming that she begins to understand the women of her history - some who were shoehorned into the only lives they could imagine, others who found ways to create the lives they wanted - and to discover where she belongs. Teresa Jordan's essays in Riding the White Horse Home are eloquent homage to her history and to ours as well. ▾Bibliotheksbeschreibungen Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. ▾Beschreibung von LibraryThing-Mitgliedern
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Jordan's final chapter explores how the family stories we are brought up with affect the possibilities we each feel we have in our own lives. By exploring and verbalizing her grandmother's life choices, she is able to make clear choices in her own. ( )