The Shoshoneans: The People of the Basin-Plateau

Recencies Series

by Ed Dorn

In the summer of 1965 a writer and photographer traveled together through Idaho, Utah and Nevada gathering material for this book.
This is not a book about the abstraction the 'Indian,' but about people--people with the weight of American History upon them.

Genres: History, Nonfiction

96 pages, Text and Photographs

Published January 1, 1966

About the author

Edward Merton Dorn was born in Villa Grove, Illinois. He grew up in rural poverty during the Great Depression. He attended a one-room schoolhouse for his first eight grades. He later studied at the University of Illinois and at Black Mountain College (1950-55). At Black Mountain he came into contact with Charles Olson, who greatly influenced his literary worldview and his sense of himself as poet.[citation needed]

Dorn's final examiner at Black Mountain was Robert Creeley, with whom, along with the poet Robert Duncan, Dorn became included as one of a trio of younger poets later associated with Black Mountain and with Charles Olson.

Reviews

[Paul Varner · Rating 5 out of 5]

This edition also contains several of Ed Dorn's major critical essays.

[Kelley · Rating 4 out of 5]

Read this, even if only for the chapter where Dorn meets the Dorseys - a gripping, emotional portrayal of the outsider recognizing himself as the intruder into a marginalized culture, questioning his assumptions, and contemplating his motives.

[Eric Neyer · Rating 5 out of 5]

An illuminating reflection on human dignity and cruelty, the spiritual devastation wrought by colonialism, and the enduring spark of America's true citizens. Ed Dorn is a one-of-a-kind thinker whose insight might change your outlook forever.