Rick Bass Ponders the Fate of the West
Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 04.17.06 | 1:50 PM ET
The Western part of the U.S., that is. “It’s a long way from San Diego to Denver, from Seattle to Albuquerque, and yet there remain some undeniable if intangible threads unifying Westerners,” the O. Henry Award-winning author writes in a terrific cover essay for this week’s issue of West magazine. “A hundred and forty years ago, Major John Wesley Powell, the one-armed Civil War veteran who explored the Grand Canyon and much of the rest of the West, said the unifying thread was water, or the absence of it, and for sure that was, and largely is, one of the major physical threads. But there is something else too, some unseen thread of spirit.” Bass’s story is available through the Los Angeles Times Web site, but registration is required.
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Michael Yessis is the cofounder and coeditor-in-chief of World Hum.
