Red Hole in Time (Volume 9) (Elma Dill Russell Spencer Series in the West and Southwest)

Marshall, Muriel

ISBN 10: 0890963320 / ISBN 13: 9780890963326

Published by Texas A&M University Press, 2000

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Red Hole in Time (Volume 9) (Elma Dill Russell Spencer Series in the West and Southwest)
• Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0890963320
• ISBN 13: 9780890963326
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 18 ounces
• Signed: Signed

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Synopsis

Escalante Canyon is a red-walled hole in a geologic uplift (the Uncompahgre Plateau) in western Colorado. Pioneers surging west fell into this canyon hole the way gold nuggets get caught in the potholes of a stream. Like nuggets eddying against stone, they were shaped by the Canyon--rounded off, shattered, or tossed away, according to how they conformed or resisted. Indeed, treasure richer than gold settled into that hole in time; in the onrushing current of history the lifestyle--the Old West--settled and still survives there--in fact, in artifact, and in living memories.

The tale of the canyon is a tale of struggle, change, frontier friendship, and enmity that is part of the story of the West itself: Anglo settlement; conflict between cowman, nester, and sheep man; epidemics; hardships; loneliness. Many of its stories, though, are tantalizing episodes unique to this place, laced with oddity and tragedy.

Using as digging tools the camera, tape recorder, diaries, memoirs, and a hundred years of old newspapers, Marshall has mined more gold than the first prospectors ever suspected lay in that mysterious red hole.

About the Author

Muriel Marshall is a freelance writer who lives in Delta, Colorado.