Research Catalog

Title

Deep Creek : finding hope in the high country / Pam Houston.

Author

Houston, Pam

Publication

• New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2019]
• ©2019

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Description

x, 303 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

• "'How do we become who we are in the world? We ask the world to teach us,' Pam Houston writes. On her 120-acre homestead high in the Colorado Rockies, this beloved writer learns what it means to care for a piece of land and the creatures on it. Elk calves and bluebirds mark the changing seasons, winter temperatures drop to 35 below, and lightning sparks a 110,000-acre wildfire, threatening her century-old barn and all its inhabitants. Through her travels from the Gulf of Mexico to Alaska, she explores what ties her to the earth, the ranch most of all. Alongside her devoted Irish wolfhounds and a spirited troupe of horses, donkeys, and Icelandic sheep, the ranch becomes Houston's sanctuary, a place where she discovers how the natural world has mothered and healed her after a childhood of horrific parental abuse and neglect. In linked essays as lucid and invigorating as mountain air, Deep Creek delivers Houston's most profound meditations yet on how 'to live simultaneously inside the wonder and the grief ... to love the damaged world and do what I can to help it thrive.'"--Dust jacket.
• Through her travels from the Gulf of Mexico to Alaska, Houston has explored what ties her to the earth. On her 120-acre homestead high in the Colorado Rockies, Houston learned what it means to care for a piece of land and the creatures on it. Elk calves and bluebirds mark the changing seasons, winter temperatures drop to 35 below, and lightning sparks a 110,000-acre wildfire, threatening her century-old barn and all its inhabitants. As the ranch becomes Houston's sanctuary, and now she shares meditations on how "to love the damaged world and do what I can to help it thrive." -- adapted from jacket

Uniform Title

Essays. Selections

Alternative Title

Essays.

Subject

• Houston, Pam
• 1900-1999
• Authors, American > 20th century > Biography
• Women ranchers > United States > Biography
• Ranch life > Colorado
• Ranching > Colorado
• Human ecology
• Human-animal relationships
• Nature
• BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
• BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women
• NATURE / Ecosystems & Habitats / Mountains
• Authors, American
• Ranch life
• Ranching
• Travel
• Women ranchers
• Women > West (U.S.)
• Essays
• American essays
• Rocky Mountains > Description and travel
• Colorado > Description and travel
• West (U.S.) > Description and travel
• Colorado
• Rocky Mountains
• United States
• United States, West

Genre/Form

• Nonfiction.
• Autobiographies.
• Biography.
• Essays.

Note

• Linked autobiographical essays.

Contents

Introduction: Some kind of calling ; Buying hay -- Part one. Getting out. The tinnitus of truth telling ; Stacking wood ; Retethering ; Donkey chasing -- Part two. Digging in. The season of hunkering down ; Leonids ; Mother's Day storm ; Puppy ; A kind of quiet most people have forgotten ; Log chain ; The sound of horse teeth on hay ; Born in a barn ; Ranch archive ; First warm day ; Eating Phoebe ; Lambing -- Part three. Diary of a fire. Diary of a fire ; Carving rivers -- Part four. Elsewhere. Kindness ; Woolly Nelson ; Of spirit bears, humpbacks, narwhal, manatees, and mothers ; Almanac -- Part five. Deep Creek. Deep Creek.

Call Number

JFE 19-2739

ISBN

• 9780393241020
• 0393241025

LCCN

• 2018037969
• 40028846926

OCLC

1037807471

Author

Houston, Pam, author.

Title

Deep Creek : finding hope in the high country / Pam Houston.

Publisher

New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2019]

Copyright Date

©2019

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Other Standard Identifier

40028846926

Research Call Number

JFE 19-2739