Description
From the Dust Jacket
The landscape of one’s heart’s desire. For Diane Ackerman, it is the American West, the life and land of the cowboy, that excites her imagination and her naturalist’s passion for the earth. An adventurer determined to realize her dream, she sets out from the East and the relative security of academe to live on a New Mexico cattle ranch where cowboying goes on as it has for ages. As soon as she arrives at the Tequesquite ranch, she pulls on her boots and gets down to work: riding herd; wrestling, branding, and delivering calves; mixing easily with the cowboys. Even as time passes, she is continually amazed to find herself “out on the prairie where there are no walls … riding freely across the range in the same mythic West that salted my childhood with its six-shooting cowboys and burly desperadoes….” As a tenderfoot—and a woman in a man’s world—she undergoes an often hilarious initiation; but she is game and spirited and altogether up to the challenges of red-hot chiles, Red Man chewing tobacco, revved-up horses, snakes dangling from brooms, and backbreaking work well before sunrise. Diane Ackerman captures the cowboy’s swiftly vanishing way of life in vital, exuberant prose. Only a writer of her stature could render so vividly a world as familiar as the Marlboro Man’s and as exotic as Mars, a place where “civilization doesn’t exactly disappear; it just seems beside the point.”
Publishing Info
Twilight of the Tenderfoot: A Western Memoir by Diane Ackerman. From the First Printing of the stated First Edition by William Morrow and Company with 1980 copyright. The ISBN is 0-688-03605-8. This hardcover book measures 8-1/2″ x 5-3/4″ and has 222 pages, plus two sections of b/w photos.
Condition
Enlarge the photo for better view. Former small town library book with the usual markings. The dust jacket was protected in a plastic sleeve. The boards and pages are in good condition. The book has a lighter “musty basement” odor at the moment. Stored in and ships from clean, smoke-free home.
Shipping
Generally sent the same day payment arrives. Unless you request otherwise, I will wrap the book in plastic wrap to help protect it from the elements, create a custom-made cardboard box to ship it in, and send via Media Mail with Delivery Confirmation tracking. See the shipping page for the cost to send a two-pound Media Mail package. Insurance is an additional cost as described. I am delighted to combine postage and insurance costs if you purchase more than one item. The second item may travel for free or just a few cents more — so it’s worth taking a look at my other items before you complete your order.
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