People of the West Desert: Finding Common Ground
Editorial Reviews
High Country News, March 1999
While these communities can be closed and suspicious at times, Denton shows that an odd sort of tolerance persists. When your nearest neighbor lives 25 miles downvalley, it doesn't much matter whether she's a survivalist, a polygamist or a member of the Sierra Club--as long as she's got a spare tire.
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Book Description
The West Desert is what Utahns call the basin and range salt desert in the eastern Great Basin. This arid region first caught the attention of photo documentarian and author Craig Denton when voices from it spoke out against turning over large desert valleys to roving MX missiles. Intrigued by the region, its people, and their choices, Denton began documenting who they were, why they were there, and how they lived.
Their reasons for living in one of the harshest and driest environments in America are diverse. Different as some of them may be, private as many of them are, these people have the same needs for community all of us have. They must find common ground. Their efforts occur at the intersection of the Old and New West and pose new questions for the future of the American Dream.
Denton portrays the regional society and people of the West Desert with insightful profiles of their lives and their world, probing discussion of common concerns, and striking photographs.
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edition.
People of the West Desert: Finding Common Ground
People of the West Desert: Finding Common Ground,Craig Denton,Utah State University Press,0874212634,Community,Community life,Desert people,General,Nevada,Pictorial works,Social Science,Sociology,Sociology - General,Utah
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