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Article: Lasso the Wind: Away to the New West.(Review)
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- The Progressive
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- March 1, 1999
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Lasso the Wind: Away to the New West by Timothy Egan Alfred A. Knopf. 266 pages. $25.00.
Timothy Egan, Pacific Northwest correspondent for The New York Times, knows he's taken on a tough topic in his third book.
"It may be easier to lasso the wind than find a sustaining story for the American West," he writes in the introduction.
Thank goodness Egan doesn't try. Instead, he shows why making sense of the West is so difficult.
There's something about the way writers portray the region that doesn't quite ring true. Maybe it's because the West is just so damn big. My home is western Washington state, where rain, mountain vistas, and ...