Rising From The Plains
by John McPhee

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This book contains McPhee's own most-admired character.
Summary: 5 Stars

The on-line review by 'mapower' is excellent and accurate. This is great stuff and a compelling read. But my reason for writing is to note that I heard the author himself, in the introduction to a recorded-book version of "Rising from the Plains", mention that of all the people he has written about, David Love's late mother (whose name escapes me--apologies), who he knows only through her journals and her children's reminiscences, is the one he most admires.

She is a formidable and fascinating woman: classically educated and arriving in central Wyoming just a few years after the opening of the frontier, she represents the only formal schooling available for children inhabiting some ten thousand square miles of some of the most desolate, wind swept terrain in the lower 48. The story of her life is woven in with the geology and history of the region with great skill and obvious affection.

I cannot recommend this book too highly.

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