Up over the opposing hill he sees the snow on the mountains west of Laramie. "He takes a deep drag and looks down past the springhouse nested in the orange willow branches. That Galvin is a poet will not surprise, given the gorgeous prose. Ray, Frank, Clara, and Lyle, my favourite character, are among those “possessed” – not only with the land in the arid mountains, but with wills of steel and relentless resourcefulness, grace, and neighbourliness.The Meadow is spellbinding: a beautiful and timeless tribute to the American West and its people. Narrating in short vignettes, he describes "seasons, the weather, the wildlife, and the few people who do not possess but are themselves possessed by this terrain" (Publisher). Author James Galvin, who was raised in northern Colorado and has an intimate sense of the place, writes a one-hundred year history of the eponymous meadow. On the Colorado-Wyoming border high in the Neversummer Mountains is a piece of land called The Meadow.
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