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Why I Came West.(Brief article)(Book review)
The title of this memoir is somewhat misleading: despite early chapters on Bass's journey from his childhood home, in Texas, and his years as an oil geologist in Mississippi, much of the book is a lament over the relentless development of the wild spaces of Montana--specifically, the Yaak Valley, where the author has lived for twenty-one years. Bass describes the forests of this Edenic valley ...
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