Ghostwest: Reflections Past and Present

Literature of the American West Series

by Ann Ronald

The author takes readers on a vivid tour of famous Western locales, from the site of Custer's last battle to Willa Cather's Nebraska prairies to the former location of Oklahoma City's Murrah Federal Building. (Literature)

Genres: History

246 pages, Hardcover

First published May 1, 2002

About the author

Stephen Trimble has received significant awards for his photography, his non-fiction, and his fiction, and the breadth of those awards mirrors the wide embrace of his work: The Sierra Club's Ansel Adams Award for photography and conservation; The National Cowboy Museums Western Heritage Wrangler Award; and a Doctor of Humane Letters from his alma mater, Colorado College, honoring his efforts to increase our understanding of Western landscapes and peoples and his choice to remain a stubborn generalist. Environmental historian James Aton has said: Trimble's books comprise one of the most well-rounded, sustained, and profound visions of people and landscape that we have ever seen in the American West.

As writer, editor, and photographer Trimble has published twenty-two books."

Reviews

[Rae · Rating 4 out of 5]

Short essays regarding historical envents in each state west of the Missouri River. What made this interesting to me is that I have been to the site or have knowledge of over half of those she chose to write about.