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The GREAT DIVIDE
For most of our nation's history, Americans have identified with the "purple mountain majesties" of the Rockies. Trappers and debutantes, miners and missionaries, artists and drinkers, escaped slaves, independent women abandoning hoopskirts, and assorted black sheep of respectable families have all sought refuge and inspiration there. This spectacular landscape has always offered a sense of freedom from crowds and conformity - a world, as Frederic Remington described it, "beyond derby hats and mortgages bearing eight percent." Gary Ferguson spins magnificent tales about the vivid characters who have peopled this majestic region, from the original Indian inhabitants and their interactions with European explorers, to the delirious victims of the gold rush fever, to hippies of the Sixties, to today's adventure travelers in high-tech outerwear toting satellite phones into the wild. Throughout, he explores the ebbs and flows of America's attitude toward the vast expanses that embody our sense of freedom. Early Acclaim for The GREAT DIVIDE "In
this fine book Gary Ferguson writes with beauty, with perspective, humor, and a considerable vision." "One of the most concise, up-to-date
and intelligently-assimilated histories of the Rocky Mountains,
and a showcase of the attitudes and forces -- spiritual,
economic, geologic, cultural -- that have sculpted this beloved
place." "Your experience of these grandest
of American mountains will be vastly enlarged by The Great
Divide. Showing what the Rockies were, and what they have become
in a time of overarching avarice, Ferguson paints a magnificent
and mournful panel of humans butting their hard heads against
ultimate grandeur."
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