"In this splendid book a gifted observer and a terrific idea have come together in a real love match.
His books include Out West: An American Journey , also available in a Bison Books edition..
He lives in Walpole, New Hampshire.
About the Author: Born and raised in a small town in Iowa, Dayton Duncan has been a reporter, humor columnist, editorial writer, chief of staff to a governor, and deputy press secretary for presidential campaigns.
His books include Out West: An American Journey, also available in a Bison Books edition.
He lives in Walpole, New Hampshire.
Great fun to read."--Montana Born and raised in a small town in Iowa, Dayton Duncan has been a reporter, humor columnist, editorial writer, chief of staff to a governor, and deputy press secretary for presidential campaigns. . . .
In them he finds characteristics associated with the mythic frontier.
Much of the book\'s charm comes from Duncan\'s sketches of people who choose to live \'Miles from nowhere\'--ranchers in the Nebraska sandhills, a New Mexican bar owner, a priest and United Parcel Service driver along the Texas-Mexico border, and the descendant of a Seminole Negro army scout in west Texas. . . .
The result of his tour is an insightful and entertaining book, troubling and funny and consistently illuminating. . . .
All are in the West.
There are 132 such counties.
In 1990, a century after the census bureau\'s famous observation of the frontier\'s imminent end, Dayton Duncan set out in an aging GMC Suburban to visit a large sampling of counties outside Alaska that have fewer than two persons per square mile--the bureau\'s old standard for places still in a Frontier condition. "In this splendid book a gifted observer and a terrific idea have come together in a real love match
