Riding the white horse home : a Western family album
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Published
New York : Pantheon Books, c1993.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Description
xiii, 219 pages : illustrations, maps, genealogical table ; 22 cm
Status
Albany Co. Public Library - Nonfiction
978.719 JORDAN
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978.719 JORDAN
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Published
New York : Pantheon Books, c1993.
Format
Book
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Notes
General Note
Maps on endpapers.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-219).
Summary
In 1886, Teresa Jordan's great-grandfather J.L. Jordan left Maryland for the West. It was on Wyoming's Iron Mountain that the Jordan ranch began and survived for nearly a hundred years. Riding the White Horse Home is Teresa Jordan's story of four generations of her family's devotion to the land, a devotion that required at once physical courage and psychic endurance. She celebrates the strength and character of the women of her family - her mother, grandmother, and great-aunts; the men - her father, grandfather, and great-grandfather; and the ranch hands - the hay crew, cooks, and cowboys. With reverence and grace, Teresa Jordan uses the history of her family to mirror the demise of a quintessential American way of life. This is not only Teresa Jordan's family history, it is every Western family's story: it is the story of the American West. Teresa Jordan writes of her family and of finding her place within its history with warmth, sincerity, and pride. It is only after she leaves Wyoming that she begins to understand the women of her history - some who were shoehorned into the only lives they could imagine, others who found ways to create the lives they wanted - and to discover where she belongs. Teresa Jordan's essays in Riding the White Horse Home are eloquent homage to her history and to ours as well.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Jordan, T. (1993). Riding the white horse home: a Western family album (First edition.). Pantheon Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Jordan, Teresa. 1993. Riding the White Horse Home: A Western Family Album. Pantheon Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Jordan, Teresa. Riding the White Horse Home: A Western Family Album Pantheon Books, 1993.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Jordan, Teresa. Riding the White Horse Home: A Western Family Album First edition., Pantheon Books, 1993.
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