Walking the High Desert: Encounters with Rural America Along the Oregon Desert Trail

by Ellen Waterston

Former high desert rancher Ellen Waterston writes of a wild, essentially roadless, starkly beautiful part of the American West. Following the recently created 750-mile Oregon Desert Trail, she embarks on a creative and inquisitive exploration, introducing readers to a "trusting, na?ve, earnest, stubbly, grumpy old man of a desert" that is grappling with issues at the forefront of national, if not global, concern: public land use, grazing rights...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295747501
• ISBN13: 9780295747507
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.4"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher