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Member: eugenegant

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Favorite authorsSherwood Anderson, Louis Bromfield, Anton Chekhov, Walter Van Tilburg Clark, Stephen Crane, Ivan Doig, Gretel Ehrlich, Edna Ferber, A. B. Guthrie, Jr., Jim Harrison, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Paul Horgan, Washington Irving, William Kittredge, Joseph Wood Krutch, Sinclair Lewis, Jack London, Herman Melville, Farley Mowat, Donald Culross Peattie, Conrad Richter, Theodore Roethke, Mari Sandoz, Wallace Stegner, John Steinbeck, George R. Stewart, Henry David Thoreau, Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev, Mark Twain, Robert Penn Warren, Thomas Wolfe (Shared favorites)

About my libraryA collection in progress of mainly Western Americana, a lot of the old and some of the new, of which only a fraction I have read from front to back. ...its the joy of the find of something great, old and in wonderful condition...

"Home-Land"

The mighty West looms vast before my sight,
Bright in the mystery of sun and sky,
mesa and plain, the desert and the sown,
the scar-faced mountains and the blinding snows,
the deathless blue and soaring angel clouds;
and on its farthest rim I see my soul
arise, broad-winged, and free, and beckon me.
~Maynard Dixon, 1904

"This curious world which we inhabit is more wonderful than it is convenient; more beautiful than it is useful; it is more to be admired and enjoyed than used." ~Henry Thoreau; taken from a college paper written at Harvard entitled "The Commercial Spirit."

"Decayed literature makes the richest soils." - Henry Thoreau

"I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature." ~John Steinbeck

"I know what I should love to do – to build a study; to write, and to think of nothing else. I want to bury myself in a den of books. I want to saturate myself with the elements of which they are made, and breathe their atmosphere until I am of it. Not a book-worm, being which is to give off no utterances, but a man in the world of writing – one with a pen which shall stop men to listen to it, whether they wish to or not." ~Lew Wallace

“Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.” ~Thomas Wolfe

"Men kill what they love the most," and if that's not the West, I don't know what is." ~ Kim Barnes (taken from a 2008 interview with High Country News)

I'm currently reading:

The Brimming Cup by Dorothy Canfield

Real nameSteven

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Member sinceDec 29, 2006

Currently readingMaking Certain It Goes On: The Collected Poems of Richard Hugo by Richard F. Hugo
The Brimming Cup by Dorothy Canfield