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"They will tell you the life they lead is different, perhaps not as different as in the old days of the frontier, but certainly unlike life in most of America in the later twentieth century. And they'll tell you the rest of the country doesn't understand them, and never consults them when decisions are made about what should happen to the land they occupy. They live in the contemporary American frontier. They are people like eighty-four-year-old Margaret Stafford, living without electricity or running water on land she homesteaded in eastern Montana, 21 miles from the nearest paved road and 43 miles from the nearest town. And Jerry McComb, a United Parcel Service driver in southwestern Texas whose daily delivery route covers an area larger than Connecticut and causes him to stop more often for stray cattle than for traffic lights. Or Alex Joseph, the polygamist mayor of Big Water, Utah, population 328, where one of his nine wives is also the town attorney; Audrey Ward, who ended up in remote Quemado, New Mexico, by answering her future husband's personal ad in a national magazine; and Mark Maryboy, a young Navajo Indian fighting on behalf of his people with ballots instead of bullets." "One hundred years after the Census Bureau and historian Frederick Jackson Turner proclaimed the end of the frontier, there are still 132 counties within fifteen western states in the Lower 48 that meet the criterion once used for locating the frontier: fewer than two people per square mile (the equivalent of 600 residents in New York's five boroughs, or the population of Indiana dispersed across the entire continental United States)." "On the centenial of the "closing of the frontier," author Dayton Duncan set out in his battered truck Conestoga to explore the vast, sparsely settled domain "miles from nowhere." He went to meet the seldom-heard-from Americans who live there, to hear their stories and see for himself what their lives are like: counties the size of states, with no doctor; a school made of logs, with one room and one teacher and a handful of students, some arriving to class on horseback; areas where the "corner bar" is 75 miles away, where the local minister might drive all day Sunday to preach at four different services, addressing a total of thirty parishioners, and where distances between one ranch and another, let alone one town and the next, will stretch your conceptions of the term "neighbor."" "Journeying with him in Miles From Nowhere, you will be introduced to a collection of unforgettable Americans, encounter the troubled history of the nation's western frontier, and discover ironic and surprising comparisons with the past."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
| ISBN-13 | 9780670831951 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0670831956 |
| Weight | 1.40 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 6.50 x 1.00 x 9.50 In |
| List Price | $22.50 |
| Format | Hardcover |
|---|---|
| Pages | 336 pages |
| Publisher | Viking Adult |
| Published On | 1993-05-01 |
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