True West: Myth and Mending on the Far Side of America

Author:   Betsy Gaines Quammen ,  Rebecca Gallagher
Publisher:   Tantor Audio
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9798874851668


Publication Date:   25 June 2024
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From the Northern Rockies to the Southwest deserts, Betsy Gaines Quammen explores how myths shape our identities, heighten polarizations, and fracture our shared understanding of the world around us. As she investigates the origins and effects of myths of the American West, Gaines Quammen travels through small towns and big cities, engaging people and building relationships at every stop. Misperceptions about land, politics, liberty, and self-determination threaten the well-being of people and communities across the country, and Gaines Quammen interrogates it all as she seeks to reconcile the anger and misunderstandings that continue to be fueled by the West's enduring myths and complex history. Whether sitting down with a militia member seeking to protect his rural Utah town from Antifa or talking with grassroots organizers working across ideological divides, Gaines Quammen brings to life connections and contradictions that shape our politics and our lives far beyond the West.

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Author:   Betsy Gaines Quammen ,  Rebecca Gallagher
Publisher:   Tantor Audio
Imprint:   Tantor Audio
ISBN:  

9798874851668


Publication Date:   25 June 2024
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Audio
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us.

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Betsy Gaines Quammen is a historian and conservationist. She received a doctorate in environmental history from Montana State University in 2017, her dissertation focusing on Mormon settlement and public land conflicts. After college in Colorado, caretaking for a bed and breakfast in Mosier, Oregon, and serving breakfasts at a cafe in Kanab, Utah, Betsy has settled in Bozeman, Montana, where she now lives with her husband, writer David Quammen, three huge dogs, an overweight cat, and a pretty big python named Boots. Rebecca Gallagher is a multiple Audie Award-nominated narrator who has recorded over 100 titles with her warm and inviting voice. She enjoys working in a variety of genres, including memoir, mystery, humor, and inspirational. Having met her husband while performing in local theater, they enjoy working together as narrators, including the occasional dual narration projects. When she isn't behind the mic, Rebecca enjoys creating in a variety of media as a visual artist in her home studio. She lives just outside of Chicago with her husband, Dean, and their two daughters.

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