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Sublette County, Wyoming in the Feb. 5 New Yorker
Front-Ranger:
This is the same general area that Annie Proulx was talking about in her lecture at the Center of the American West back in November that was covered in Social Events. She has a book coming out this year about The Red Desert that seeks to promote conservation of the area, but it may be too late if the energy boom continues as it has.
Front-Ranger:
Quote from "Boomtown Blues" by Alexandra Fuller:
"The house is furnished for people whose most important reference point is the land: rugged carpet, a couple of bottomed-out sofas, a utilitarian coffee table, and a woodstove....On the wall above the python's cage was a framed pencil drawing of Licking at eighteen, in his heyday as a bareback rider. Next to that were several professional photographs of bucking horses ridden by him as a young man, his spurs digging into the horse's flanks, his face hidden behind his cowboy hat, his hand in the air as if in a black-power salute."
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on February 07, 2007, 01:02:41 am ---This is the same general area that Annie Proulx was talking about in her lecture at the Center of the American West back in November that was covered in Social Events. She has a book coming out this year about The Red Desert that seeks to promote conservation of the area, but it may be too late if the energy boom continues as it has.
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Thanks for that, Lee. I remembered reading about Annie's talk about the Red Desert, and when I read the article I wondered whether Sublette County was considered part of that region, but the term Red Desert wasn't used, and when I looked on my Wyoming map, I thought perhaps Sublette County was too far north.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on February 07, 2007, 01:30:21 am ---Quote from "Boomtown Blues" by Alexandra Fuller:
"The house is furnished for people whose most important reference point is the land: rugged carpet, a couple of bottomed-out sofas, a utilitarian coffee table, and a woodstove....On the wall above the python's cage was a framed pencil drawing of Licking at eighteen, in his heyday as a bareback rider. Next to that were several professional photographs of bucking horses ridden by him as a young man, his spurs digging into the horse's flanks, his face hidden behind his cowboy hat, his hand in the air as if in a black-power salute."
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"Licking" is one Levi Licking, a subject of the article, who grew up in Sublette County. He's a former rodeo rider who now works as a roughneck. He and his wife have a pet python. ;)
Front-Ranger:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on February 07, 2007, 10:08:18 am ---Thanks for that, Lee. I remembered reading about Annie's talk about the Red Desert, and when I read the article I wondered whether Sublette County was considered part of that region, but the term Red Desert wasn't used, and when I looked on my Wyoming map, I thought perhaps Sublette County was too far north.
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Annie was asked about the northern border of the desert, and she said it was roughly along I-80, which includes Rock Springs, Rawlins, and Green River. The county also includes a saddle of the Rocky Mountains between the Teton Range to the north and the Medicine Bows to the south and east. Gale-force winds that fell semis (see my posts in Anything Goes), and thousands of Antelope move through this area every year. Last fall, Pete and I traversed the Muddy Gap over the Rockies and visited Independence Rock where pioneers left their messages.
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