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Author Thybony, Scott, author.

Title Burntwater / Scott Thybony
Published Tucson : University of Arizona Press, ©1997

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 117 pages)
Contents Deeper in -- Mad Kelly -- Sun chief -- The singer -- Redwall -- No man -- Blind trail -- Roadman -- Encircled mountain -- Brothers of light -- Stone lions -- Under the Rim -- Returning
Summary In Navajo country, where the land is thick with legends and forgotten histories, a writer sets out to find a place that no longer exists except on a few old maps: Burntwater. The story opens when two friends get stuck in a remote pocket of the desert as a winter storm moves in. They are taking a wandering route across the Four Corners region, curving through Utah, New Mexico, and Arizona on a long arc into the mythic heart of the country
As they travel, the author calls up past experiences in this land where the past flows seamlessly into the present. He remembers a medicine man whose chanting could start the cold engine of a Volkswagen. He describes an act of sabotage against an oil company by two Vietnam vets armed with deer rifles. He recalls how a winter of herding sheep for a Navajo family and a search for a Hopi known as the Sun Chief led him further into a human landscape as strange and compelling as the terrain. Reaching the Shrine of the Stone Lions, the writer recounts a near-fatal descent into the Grand Canyon, where he finds a way to reconnect with the beauty of life. There his journey ends with an emotional punch that goes straight to the mind and the heart
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Subject Thybony, Scott -- Travel -- Four Corners Region
SUBJECT Thybony, Scott -- Travel -- Four Corners Region
Thybony, Scott fast
Subject Indians of North America -- Four Corners Region -- Anecdotes
NATURE -- Essays.
Indians of North America
Travel
SUBJECT Four Corners Region -- Description and travel
Four Corners Region -- Biography -- Anecdotes
Subject United States -- Four Corners Region
Genre/Form Biographies
Anecdotes
Anecdotes.
Biographies.
Anecdotes.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780816532674
0816532672