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The Meadow

The Meadow

Author(s): James Galvin

Location(s): Colorado

Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Nonfiction

Era(s): 20th century

In discrete disclosures joined with the intricacy of a spider’s web, James Galvin depicts the hundred-year history of a meadow in the arid mountains of the Colorado/Wyoming border.

Galvin describes the seasons, the weather, the wildlife, and the few people who do not possess but are themselves possessed by this terrain. In so doing he reveals an experience that is part of our heritage and mythology.

For Lyle, Ray, Clara, and App, the struggle to survive on an independent family ranch is a series of blameless failures and unacclaimed successes that illuminate the Western character.

The Meadow evokes a sense of place that can be achieved only by someone who knows it intimately.

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