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From Hell to Jackson Hole: A Poetic History of the American West

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Author:	Michael L. Johnson
Paperback:	128 pages
Publisher:	Bridge House Books
Publication Date:	2001-10
ISBN:	0965348776
Package Length:	10.04 inches
Package Width:	7.01 inches
Package Height:	0.43 inches
Package Weight:	0.78 pounds
Average Customer Rating:	based on 3 reviews

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A memorable book of original poems Jun 04, 2002
From Hell To Jackson Hole: A Poetic History Of The American West is a memorable book of original poems cherishing the history and spirit of the American West. Color photographs of artworks celebrating the Old West are occasionally interspersed among the moving, free-verse narratives that give life and memory to an era. Adah Isaacs Menken: Toast of San Francisco, she wowed the West/playing Mazeppa, the Cossack prince lashed/birthday naked to a wild stallion's back/in punishment for some illicit love./She filled the stage with frenzies of the flesh.//Many men damned her; most fell at her feet/and gave her gold or shares of mining stock.//Once, in Virginia City, Mark Twain came/to call at her hotel. She sipped champagne/and fed her lap dog brandied sugar cubes./He spoke in riddles of her pretty hands.

Ideal Christmas Gift for That Western Fan in Your Life Nov 22, 2001
This is the book that John Mark Eberhart in his Kansas City Star review calls "one of the most illuminating histories of the American West you'll ever read" and one in which Michael L. Johnson "has taken what many consider to be a humble subgenre of American verse--so-called 'cowboy poetry'--and turned it into literature of the highest order." He's right as Roy Rogers riding on the white-hat side of law and order!

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A beautiful book of poetry. Oct 28, 2001
I keep this book out where I can get at it during the day so I can read a page here and there. It's filled with poems both long and short (e.g. Haiku).

The most treasured thing about this book is the appendix which lists sources. I can thus read further about the intriguing characters which are the subjects of the poems.