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Article: Lasso the Wind: Away tot he New West.(Review)
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- February 12, 1999
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In Lasso the Wind, Timothy Egan chronicles his journey through the "New West" of hot tubs and espresso bars. What's discouraging, though, is how little has really changed since the '40s and '50s when the late Wallace Stegner began writing the essays that his son Page has collected in Marking the Sparrow's Fall. For generations, the story of the West has been the story of exploitation and extraction.
Egan sees some signs of hope in his tour of eleven Western states. Wolves are howling again in Yellowstone, the Nez Perce have been welcomed back to the Wallowas. But occasional ecological victories pale beside a Las Vegas or a Phoenix growing out of control on the ...
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