What You See in Clear Water: Indians, Whites, and a Battle Over Water in the American West (Vintage Departures) [Idioma Inglés] - Softcover

O'Gara, Geoffrey

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0679735828 ISBN 13: 9780679735823

Verlag: Vintage, 2002

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"A clear-eyed portrait of Westerners trying to pull a living from a difficult land" -- Outside

"A rare blend of fact and emotion that will inform and move readers." --Dallas Morning News

"O'Gara is a lyrical writer when sketching pictures of the land. He is fair and evenhanded . . . [and] lets his characters have their say." --The New York Times Book Review

"A terrific book by a writer patient and sympathetic enough to air all the complex issues, the triumphs and failures, without judging anybody" -- William Kittredge, author of Hole in the Sky

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Traces the history of the Wind River Reservation of Wyoming, home to the unrelated Shoshone and Arapaho tribes, from the nineteenth century to the present day, and describes the complex legal struggle over control of the land and rights to water from the river that runs through it, between the Native American tribes and the local farmers. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.. NOTA: El libro no está en español, sino en inglés.

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• Verlag: Vintage
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0679735828
• ISBN 13: 9780679735823
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 304