"One of the verybest writers to deal with the american west."
Book Description
Fire on the Mountain Grandfather John Vogelin's land is his life -- a barren stretch of New Mexican wilderness, mercifully bypassed by civilization. Then the government moves in. And suddenly the elderly, mule-stubborn rancher is confronting the combined land-grabbing greed of the County Sheriff, the Department of the Interior, the Atomic Energy Commission and the U.S. Air Force. But a tough old man is like a mountain lion: if you back hom into a conner, he'll come out fighting.
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About the Author
Edward Abbey, a onetime forest ranger, was born in Home, Pennsylvania, and spent most of his life in the American Southwest. He is the author of numerous works of fiction and nonfiction, including the muchcelebrated Desert Solitaire, which decried the waste of America's wilderness and established Abbey as one of the country's foremost defenders of the natural environment. Abbey died in 1989.
Fire on the Mountain FROM THE PUBLISHER
Fire on the Mountain
Grandfather John Vogelin's land is his life — a barren stretch of New Mexican wilderness, mercifully bypassed by civilization. Then the government moves in. And suddenly the elderly, mule-stubborn rancher is confronting the combined land-grabbing greed of the County Sheriff, the Department of the Interior, the Atomic Energy Commission and the U.S. Air Force. But a tough old man is like a mountain lion: if you back hom into a conner, he'll come out fighting.
SYNOPSIS
Rancher John Vogelin had lived all his life under the blazing New Mexico sun, and there was no reason for him to believe he would spend the last years of his life anywhere else -- until the day he was told he would have to get out of the way to make room for a missile base. But Vogelin wasn't about to leave without a fight.
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