Wilderness and the American Spirit

"Ruby McConnell sings a landscape from a place of stillness and reflection, improvising from talismans she finds along the Applegate Trail. Wilderness and the American Spirit is an engaging meditation about the need for a new consciousness between humans and the earth."

-- Peter Stark, author of Gallop Toward the Sun, The Last Empty Places and Astoria: John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson's Lost Pacific Empire

" A rich and nuanced telling of US ideas about land, the Frontier, identity, and so many of the individual and social experiences that have led us to the difficult moment we live within."

- David Syring, Fellow - Institute on the Environment and author of With the Saraguros: The Blended Life in a Transnational World

"McConnell beautifully muses on the call of the wild, why Americans have answered it over and over again, and the dangers of the myth of wilderness"

- Tove Danovich, journalist and author of Under the Henfluence

"McConnell lights up the lines that criss-cross the West from the notorious Humboldt Sink in Northeastern Nevada to her own Willamette Valley in Western Oregon"

- Wendy Willis, author of These are Strange Times My Dear: Field Notes from the Republic

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