Owning It All: Essays

Owning It All: Essays

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<p>This is a deeply felt and highly informed essay collection about life in the American west by one of the finest writers ever to emerge from that region. As the <i>Seattle Times</i> has said of <i>Owning It All</i>: "You may never again see the American west in quite the same way if you take the time to view it through the eyes of William Kittredge. [This is a] stunning book." Having grown up on his family's cattle ranch in eastern Oregon, Kittredge directly confronts the contradictions and myths that lie at the heart of the Western experience: male freedom and female domesticity, the wild and the tame, self-interest and love of the land.</p>