![]() ![]() Galvin, who grew up on a ranch overlooking the titular meadow, has an intense connection to the land, and it is borne out in his writing. Set almost entirely on a swath of borderland south of Laramie, Wyo., and north of Red Feather Lakes, it focuses on the centurylong heritage of a particular homestead. ![]() His book “The Meadow” - an eclectic amalgamation of memoir, prose, fiction and nonfiction - is a finely wrought and powerful collection of anecdotes. From the top of the ridge behind my house I can see the towering angular peaks of the Mount Zirkel Wilderness Area casting shadows on verdant valleys and hidden creeks, and if I turn around, I can look out onto rolling sage-blanketed foothills that give way to the molted semi-arid grasslands of the Western plains.īy combining prose, poetry, parable and fact, James Galvin attempts to mimic the litany of natural beauty from which his, and our, inspiration is drawn. ![]() Steamboat Springs - Here in Routt County, we know just how remote and indiscriminate the Northern Colorado landscape is. ![]()
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