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Remembering Laughter

Wallace Stegner (1909-1993) was the author of, among other novels, Remembering Laughter, 1937; The Big Rock Candy Mountain, 1943; Joe Hill, 1950; All the Little Live Things, 1967 (Commonwealth Club Gold Medal); A Shooting Star, 1961; Angle of Repose, 1971 (Pulitzer Prize); The Spectator Bird, 1976 (National Book Award, 1977); Recapitulation, 1979; and Crossing to Safety, 1987.

The Big Rock Candy Mountain

Joe Hill

Wolf Willow

Later, in addition to writing histories and the memoir-history Wolf Willow, which came out of an investigation of his own roots, he would do extensive historical research as a basis for several of his novels.

All the Little Live Things

A Shooting Star

The Spectator Bird

Recapitulation

Crossing to Safety

Beyond the Hundredth Meridian

His nonfiction includes Beyond the Hundredth Meridian, 1954; Wolf Willow, 1963; The Sound of Mountain Water (essays), 1969; The Uneasy Chair: A Biography of Bernard DeVoto, 1974; and Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs: Living and Writing in the West (1992).

Wolf Willow

The Sound of Mountain Water (essays)

The Uneasy Chair: A Biography of Bernard DeVoto

Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs: Living and Writing in the West

Collected Stories

His Collected Stories was published in 1990.

The True Adventures of John Steinbeck, Writer

Among them is the authorized biography The True Adventures of John Steinbeck, Writer (1984), which won the PEN West USA award for nonfiction.

Wallace Stegner: His Life and Work

His latest work was the authorized biography Wallace Stegner: His Life and Work (1996), which won the David Woolley and Beatrice Cannon Evans Biography Award.

The Spectator Bird

He was given numerous awards for his writings, including the Pulitzer Prize for Angle of Repose, the National Book Award for The Spectator Bird, and the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Los Angeles Times.

Beyond the Hundredth Meridian

In a Chronicle poll of best nonfiction books, his John Wesley Powell biography, Beyond the Hundredth Meridian, was listed number two.

The Big Rock Candy Mountain

When asked by an interviewer if the life of Mary Hallock Foote, the model for the heroine of Angle of Repose, had reminded him of the life of Elsa Mason, the mother in the semiautobiographical The Big Rock Candy Mountain, Stegner said, 'Not consciously. It never occurred to me that there was any relation between Angle of Repose and Big Rock Candy Mountain till after I had finished writing it.

Remembering Laughter

Almost with the desperation that leads us to bet on the lottery, he sat down and wrote a story he had heard from his wife about some of her distant relatives. The result was Remembering Laughter, which, much to the Stegners’ surprise and delight, won the Little Brown Novelette Prize.

All the Little Live Things

A breakthrough did not come until late in his career, when he wrote All the Little Live Things (1967). It was with this novel that he at last found his voice by inventing Joe Allston, the narrator, who is witty, sometimes wise, and often cantankerous.

Crossing to Safety

with Allston in All the Little Live Things and The Spectator Bird, and the narrators descended from him, Lyman Ward in Angle of Repose and Larry Morgan in Crossing to Safety, Stegner used a first-person narrator to achieve a voice close to his own.

Recapitulation

In later years he considered Salt Lake his hometown, and he chronicled his returning home and rediscovering his youth in the novel Recapitulation.

Mormon Country

He was so impressed by his experiences in Mormon culture that he later wrote his two histories, Mormon Country and The Gathering of Zion, about the development of that culture.

The Gathering of Zion

He was so impressed by his experiences in Mormon culture that he later wrote his two histories, Mormon Country and The Gathering of Zion, about the development of that culture.

Selected American Prose: The Realistic Movement, 1841-1900

He took notes on her work, put one of her stories in his anthology Selected American Prose: The Realistic Movement, 1841-1900, and included one of her short novels on his reading list for his American literature class.

Literary History of the United States

He was doing research for a chapter to be included in the Literary History of the United States called 'Western Record and Romance.

The Great Gatsby

Like The Great Gatsby, it helps us define who we, as a people in this new land, are. Oliver in his gallant romanticism is our Gatsby, and Susan in her own romantic snobbish world is our Daisy, and ne’er the twain shall meet until at the end they find their angle of repose. We have all, to use Fitzgerald’s words, looked toward the “fresh, green breast of the New World,” and we all believe, or would like to believe, in the American Dream, although we each may define that dream in our own way.

The Big Rock Candy Mountain

Our going forward, of course, often means going west, looking for the main chance, as Stegner’s own father did, or as Bo Mason, the character in The Big Rock Candy Mountain modeled after George Stegner, did, or as Oliver and Susan Ward did.

All the Little Live Things

All the Little Live Things. New York: Viking, 1967.

Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West

Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1954.

The Big Rock Candy Mountain

The Big Rock Candy Mountain. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1943.

Collected Stories of Wallace Stegner

Collected Stories of Wallace Stegner. New York: Random House, 1990.

Crossing to Safety

Crossing to Safety. New York: Random House, 1987.

Marking the Sparrow’s Fall: Wallace Stegner’s American West

Marking the Sparrow’s Fall: Wallace Stegner’s American West. Edited by Page Stegner. New York: Henry Holt, 1999.

Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs: Living and Writing in the West

Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs: Living and Writing in the West. New York: Random House, 1992.

Wolf Willow: A History, a Story, and a Memory of the Last Plains Frontier

Wolf Willow: A History, a Story, and a Memory of the Last Plains Frontier. New York: Viking, 1962.

Wallace Stegner: His Life and Work

Benson, Jackson J. Wallace Stegner: His Life and Work. New York: Viking, 1996.

Conversations with Wallace Stegner on Western History and Literature

Etulain, Richard W., ed. Conversations with Wallace Stegner on Western History and Literature. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1983.

Wallace Stegner: A Descriptive Bibliography

Colberg, Nancy. Wallace Stegner: A Descriptive Bibliography. Lewiston, Idaho: Confluence Press, 1990.

Critical Essays on Wallace Stegner

Arthur, Anthony ed. Critical Essays on Wallace Stegner. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1982.

Wallace Stegner and the Continental Vision: Essays on Literature, History, and Landscape

Meine, Curt, ed. Wallace Stegner and the Continental Vision: Essays on Literature, History, and Landscape. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 1997.

Wallace Stegner: Man and Writer

Rankin, Charles E., ed. Wallace Stegner: Man and Writer. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1996.

Wallace Stegner

Robinson, Forrest G., and Margaret G. Robinson. Wallace Stegner. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1977.

somebody interesting

…(6) I am not going to give up this business of Grandmother’s papers and write a book on “somebody interesting.” Rodman pretends to be afraid that out of sentiment I will waste what he flatteringly calls major talents (he disparages history but was touchingly proud when I won the Bancroft Prize) on a nobody.

The Culprit Fay

Several things interest me in that passage. For one thing, it tells me the source of Rodman’s name. It was Grandmother’s dearest wish that we give our child that label. He would never forgive me if he learned that we named him after the author of The Culprit Fay.

The Rubáiyat of Omar Khayyám

John La Farge had spent the afternoon at Augusta’s 15th Street studio, and had read them parts of a poem called The Rubáiyat of Omar Khayyám.

Snowbound

She hung it up there like a jack-o’-lantern. Snowbound fell through, but shortly she was busy on forty drawings and a dozen vignettes for Longfellow’s The Hanging of the Crane, and a year and a half after she began that, she reported its considerable success in the Christmas trade.

The Hanging of the Crane

…she was busy on forty drawings and a dozen vignettes for Longfellow’s The Hanging of the Crane, and a year and a half after she began that, she reported its considerable success in the Christmas trade…

The Skeleton in Armor

Mr. Longfellow held her hand quite a long time and told her he was astonished that one so talented should also be so young and charming. He made her promise to illustrate The Skeleton in Armor—which, it turned out, was what the publishers had brought her to Boston to discuss.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Recently I was looking through a file of the Century, which he edited after Scribner’s closed up, and in the single issue of February 1885 I found, in addition to the Susan Burling Ward story that had led me to it, the final installment of a book by Mark Twain called The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the ninth and tenth chapters of a novel by William Dean Howells called The Rise of Silas Lapham, and the opening installment of a novel by Henry James called The Bostonians.

The Rise of Silas Lapham

…the final installment of a book by Mark Twain called The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the ninth and tenth chapters of a novel by William Dean Howells called The Rise of Silas Lapham, and the opening installment of a novel by Henry James called The Bostonians.

The Bostonians

…the opening installment of a novel by Henry James called The Bostonians.

The Scarlet Letter

When Susan obtained a commission to illustrate a gift edition of The Scarlet Letter, that settled it: she would have a very adequate model for Hester Prynne in her own kitchen.

Bret Harte stage ride

Her anticipation of a romantic Bret Harte stage ride lasted only minutes. Dust engulfed them. She had Oliver draw the curtains, but then the heat was so great that they suffered at a slow boil.

The Scarlet Letter

To stack the wood-blocks for The Scarlet Letter in the corner cupboard with her sketch pads, pencils, and watercolors gave her an intense pleasurable feeling of being ready to live.

The Skeleton in Armor

Oliver went and got The Skeleton in Armor and The Hanging of the Crane and some old copies of Scribner’s and St. Nicholas and laid them in Starling’s lap.

The Hanging of the Crane

Oliver went and got The Skeleton in Armor and The Hanging of the Crane and some old copies of Scribner’s and St. Nicholas and laid them in Starling’s lap.

Daniel Deronda

She wanted to talk to him about Daniel Deronda, about which she and Augusta had been having a chatty and I must say tedious correspondence as they read it simultaneously. But he was impatient with George Eliot.

Leaves of Grass

She possessed, and quoted from, what Grandmother assumed to be the only copy of Leaves of Grass in California.

The Scarlet Letter

The Scarlet Letter blocks went off in March. It would be pleasant to find that these pictures, though done in exile and against difficulties, triumphantly justify her as an artist.

The Scarlet Letter

‘Oliver,’ she said, ‘we mustn’t! You forget the six hundred dollars I made from The Scarlet Letter, and what I’ll get from Mr. Howells and from Thomas.’

Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper

Tell me about Mosquito Pass, is it as horrible as it looked in Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper? Dead horses and wrecked wagons and frightful precipices?

Century

For a time she lay phrasing the day’s experience in colorful and humorous fashion, as if for the pages of Century, and almost persuaded herself that under the rough and ridiculous circumstances of life in the Rocky Mountains there was something exciting and vital, full of rude poetry: the heartbeat of the West as it fought its way upward toward civilization.

novel of Louisa Alcott’s

“I’m sure you’ll be welcome when you can come,” she said. “But I’ll be busy—you’ll have to keep out of my way. I brought some blocks for a novel of Louisa Alcott’s.” He said seriously, “Maybe you’ll want to stay at the hotel.”

Quentin Durward

“What a nice boy,” Susan said “And handsome. He looks like Quentin Durward. Do you suppose he’d let me draw him sometime?”

Godey's Lady's Book

A nightcap? Perhaps. I might go to Godey’s Lady’s Book and leam these intimate secrets of the boudoir, I might not.

Sears, Roebuck catalogues

Sears, Roebuck catalogues to tell a historian how a lady was supposed to look when opening her eyes on a new day wouldn’t be along for some years.

Miss Alcott’s novel

I have already drawn him into Miss Alcott’s novel. Isn’t it queer, at my age and in this altitude, to discover what it means to have power over men!

Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada

Clarence King himself, a man glitteringly famous, director of the Geological Survey, author of Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada, climber of Mount Whitney, exposer of the great diamond hoax.

King Survey reports

Standing close behind him, Oliver took in each hand a volume of the King Survey reports-great quartos that ran six pounds to the book, the concentrated learning of King, Prager, Emmons, the Hague brothers, a dozen others who had been Oliver’s guides and models.

Survey of the Fortieth Parallel

In her mood of critical appraisal, Susan reflected that when he was younger than Oliver–far younger, no more than twenty-five–he had been able to conceive his Survey of the Fortieth Parallel, and without money of his own, or influence beyond what he could generate by his own enthusiasm, get it funded by a skeptical Congress. He had impressed Presidents and made himself an intimate of the great.

The Public Domain

Along with them in their box is Donaldson’s ponderous report on the Public Domain, a work as neglected by the Congress that commissioned it as King predicted it would be, but a benchmark in the nation’s understanding of itself, the sort of contribution to disinterested knowledge that my grandfather would have liked to make.

St. Nicholas

Years later, a frugal lady making every tiny experience count, she wrote another story about a sick lamb left behind by a Basque herder, and illustrated it, using two of her children as models, and sold it to St. Nicholas. I remember having it read to me in my childhood, and it sits on the desk here now, the faces entirely recognizable–Grandmother did have a gift for catching a likeness.

a novel by Mr. Howells

In all that time she apparently wrote no letters except a note to Osgood and Company refusing a contract to illustrate a novel by Mr. Howells.

My Grandmother’s Trip to Mexico in 1880

I would have been back there, aged twelve or so, conspiring with her to write a paper called “My Grandmother’s Trip to Mexico in 1880,” illustrated with her woodcuts scissored from old copies of Century Magazine.

Frithjof Saga

sat up half one moonlit night to hear a fantastic recitation of the Frithjof Saga in the original by a young Swedish engineer on his way to build a Mexican railroad.

Artemus Ward: Trust everybody, but cut the cards

The laugh that came out of him struck her ear unpleasantly. “He should read Artemus Ward: Trust everybody, but cut the cards.’ ” “I don’t understand.”

short book

She goes to Mexico for two months and returns with a hundred magnificent drawings and what amounts to a short book–she writes as well as Cable and draws better than Moran.

novel about Leadville

I'm doing a novel about Leadville.

Psalms

Inside, on the title page, fellaheen in loincloths are carrying water in pots slung on a pole, and underneath the woodcut is a quotation which with great difficulty I have determined comes from Psalms: 'I have removed his shoulder from the burden; his hands were delivered from the pots.

Leadville novel

I am writing another Leadville novel, being poor in experience and having to make do with what is at hand.

The Girl of the Period

And this for a girl who was brought up in an English country house (it now belongs to Ruskin!), whose father is a famous artist and whose stepmother recently published a book called The Girl of the Period! Nothing like her has ever been seen in Idaho.

Far Western Life

Dear Thomas– I send you with this the first two blocks in the “Far Western Life” series, together with a thousand‐word sketch to accompany each. Please, please throw these last away if they fail to come up to your standards, and have some competent writer do something in substitution.

The Witness

“But Oliver, we will have some money. I’ll be getting a check from Thomas for The Witness.”

War and Peace

…and tightened her drowning-woman’s grip on culture, literature, civilization, by trying to read War and Peace. But her eyes were too scratchy.

Household Poets

Agnes lay and watched her mother stow in the box their Household Poets, the cover read completely off and replaced with calf; and War and Peace, and Fathers and Sons, and some Dickens and Thackeray and Howells and James, and some Constance Fenimore Woolson, and some Kate Chopin, and some Cable.

War and Peace

Fathers and Sons

Tennyson’s Idyls of the King

Then a volume in limp leather, tooled and stamped in gold: Tennyson’s Idyls of the King, bound for her by Frank Sargent as a gift on her thirty‐eighth birthday. She let it fall open, and of course what did it open to? “The old order changes, yielding place to new.”

Noli me tangere

I guess I think it would not have taken Frank long to discover that the object of his hopeless devotion–Noli me tangere, for Caesar’s I am–was in a mood of serious disillusionment with Caesar.

The Freshening Day

I was rereading The Freshening Day, that first book of Thomas’s poems, and our wedding-present copy from you, with the date of my wedding day fourteen years ago.

Life in the Far West

My “Life in the Far West” series must include the preparations for the future, for that is what life in the Far West is about.

The Birds’ Christmas Carol

The sweet treble of Betsy’s voice was the only sound. She was reading The Birds’ Christmas Carol.

Insects of Various Kinds

… perhaps pure accident, perhaps an opportunity or willingness that both recognized at the first touch, and I absolutely unaware. There is a Japanese story called Insects of Various Kinds in which a spider trapped between the sliding panes of a window lies there inert, motionless, apparently lifeless, for many months, and then in spring, when a maid moves the window for a few seconds to clean it, springs once and is gone.

Last Year at Marienbad

Squashed scorpions on a white wall, two people talking, intensely unaware of being watched, in a parked car–Robbe-Grillet, that sort of thing. Last Year at Marienbad, revolving views around statues, moving views down halls, frozen and hypnotic and with held breath, and all the time the television screen jittering with meaningless motion as the Giant pitcher took his warmup throws for a new inning, and the catcher pegged down to second and the infielders peppered it around.

The Doppler Effect

“How do you like The Doppler Effect? Is that any better?”

Inside the Bendix

“Forget it. It doesn’t matter. The title’s the least of it. I might call it Inside the Bendix. It isn’t a book anyway, it’s just a kind of investigation into a life.”

ALL THE LITTLE LIVE THINGS

ALL THE LITTLE LIVE THINGS The sequel to the National Book Award-winning Spectator Bird finds Joe Allston and his wife in California, scarred by the senseless death of their son and baffled by the engulfing chaos of the 1960s.

BEYOND THE HUNDREDTH MERIDIAN

BEYOND THE HUNDREDTH MERIDIAN John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West A fascinating look at the old American West and the man who prophetically warned against the dangers of settling it.

THE BIG ROCK CANDY MOUNTAIN

THE BIG ROCK CANDY MOUNTAIN Stegner portrays more than thirty years in the life of the Mason family in this harrowing saga of people trying to survive during the lean years of the early twentieth century.

COLLECTED STORIES OF WALLACE STEGNER

COLLECTED STORIES OF WALLACE STEGNER Thirty-one stories, written over half a century, demonstrate why Stegner is acclaimed as one of America’s master storytellers.

CROSSING TO SAFETY

CROSSING TO SAFETY This story of the remarkable friendship between the Langs and the Morgans explores such things as writing for money, solid marriages, and academic promotions.

JOE HILL

JOE HILL Blending fact with fiction, Stegner creates a full-bodied portrait of Joe Hill, the Wobbly labor organizer who became a legend after he was executed for murder in 1915.

RECAPITULATION

RECAPITULATION Bruce Mason returns to Salt Lake City not to perform the perfunctory arrangements for his aunt’s funeral but to exorcise the ghosts of his past.

REMEMBERING LAUGHTER

REMEMBERING LAUGHTER In the novel that marked his literary debut, Stegner depicts the dramatic, moving story of an Iowa farm wife whose spirit is tested by a series of events as cruel and inevitable as the endless prairie winters.

A SHOOTING STAR

A SHOOTING STAR Sabrina Castro follows a downward spiral of moral disintegration as she wallows in regret over her dissatisfaction with her older and successful husband.

THE SOUND OF MOUNTAIN WATER

THE SOUND OF MOUNTAIN WATER Essays, memoirs, letters, and speeches, written over a period of twenty-five years, which expound upon the rapid changes in the West’s cultural and natural heritage.

THE SPECTATOR BIRD

THE SPECTATOR BIRD Stegner’s National Book Award–winning novel portrays retired literary agent Joe Allston, who passes through life as a spectator–until he rediscovers the journals of a trip he took to his mother’s birthplace years before.

WHERE THE BLUEBIRD SINGS TO THE LEMONADE SPRINGS

WHERE THE BLUEBIRD SINGS TO THE LEMONADE SPRINGS Living and Writing in the West Sixteen brilliant essays about the people, the land, and the art of the American West.

WOLF WILLOW

WOLF WILLOW A History, a Story, and a Memory of the Last Plains Frontier Introduction by Page Stegner In a recollection of his boyhood in southern Saskatchewan, Stegner creates a wise and enduring portrait of a pioneer community existing on the verge of the modern world.

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Indirect References

Longfellow poem

In the night she may have heard the wind sighing under the eaves ... and been shaken by unfamiliar emotions and tender resolves. Being who she was, she would have reasserted to herself beliefs about marriage, female surrender, communion of the flesh and union of the spirit that would have been at home in a Longfellow poem. She could have both written and illustrated it.

The Scarlet Letter

She brought out her Scarlet Letter blocks, and Starling was amused to find in Oliver and Lizzie the recognizable originals of Dimmesdale and Hester Prynne.

Biography of Thomas Hudson

Anyway, yesterday afternoon about four I was over by the window looking through a biography of Thomas Hudson by his daughter, checking out the references to Grandmother.

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

He looked at me pleasantly, he wagged his head in appreciation of what we shared. 'Great day,' he said. 'Great country,' and passed on, through the pines. Whose woods those were, I think I know, and they were not his.

Linnaean Botany Book

…but she felt better about him. For a moment there, when that fragment of a Linnaean botany book had burst out of him, the dimmed mind had brightened.

Louisa Alcott novel

…and that Osgood and Company have known him as the young man next door in a Louisa Alcott novel.

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Leadville, Colorado

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Huntington Library, San Marino, California, United States

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New Almaden, California

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San Francisco, California

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Newport, Rhode Island

"visited La Farge at Newport, lunched at the White House, toured Italy and the Holy Land."

Staten Island, New York

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Poughkeepsie, New York

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Milton on the Hudson, New York

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Idaho, United States

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"…or did you cling forever to the sentiment you wrote to Augusta Hudson from the bottom of failure in Boise Canyon—that not even Henry James’s expatriates were so exiled as you?"

Italy, Europe

"visited La Farge at Newport, lunched at the White House, toured Italy and the Holy Land."

Holy Land, Israel

"visited La Farge at Newport, lunched at the White House, toured Italy and the Holy Land."

New Almaden mine, San Jose, California

"When he was making an underground survey of the New Almaden mine he stayed underground for twenty hours at a stretch."

Burbank, California

"“Best egg in the basket,” he used to say of me when I was a small boy and wanted to help him plant and prune and prop and espalier his Burbank fruit freaks."

Leadville, Colorado

"The loose folders I have been working on are weighted down with Grandfather’s rock samples—high‐grade mostly, with varicose veins of gold through it, but also other things: a piece of horn silver, carbonate ore from Leadville, a volcanic bomb sawed in two to reveal the nest of olivine inside, some jasper geodes, an assortment of flaked flint arrow and spearheads."

Grass Valley, California

"You were there. Did it use to be that way? When Shelly went down there to go to school she was the brightest girl in Grass Valley High."

Berkeley, California

"… a daughter at home resting up from her husband, who is apparently a head of some sort, one of the Berkeley Street People, a People’s Park maker, a drop‐out and a cop‐out whose aim is to remake the world closer to the heart’s desire."

California, United States

"Not a word in it about Oliver Ward, no expressed anticipations or worries about California."

Stanford, California

"Leaving Harvard, he went to Stanford after World War II and began what became one of the most renowned creative writing programs in the country."

Salt Lake City, Utah

"After leaving Saskatchewan, the family eventually ended up in Salt Lake City, where Wallace spent his teenage years."

White House, Washington, D.C.

"visited La Farge at Newport, lunched at the White House, toured Italy and the Holy Land."

Silicon Valley, California

"From the last homestead frontier in Saskatchewan to the information age in Silicon Valley, from horse and plow to mouse and computer."

Grass Valley, California

"He also learned that Foote had a granddaughter living in Grass Valley, California (near the Empire Mine, where Foote’s husband had been the superintendent)."

New Almaden, California

"A GI student in one of his classes reported that he had come across Mary Hallock Foote’s illustrations and writings about New Almaden (in the Coast Range foothills near San Jose, California)."

Zodiac Cottage, Grass Valley, California, United States

"Zodiac Cottage, Grass Valley, California, April 12, 1970. Right there, I might say to Rodman, who doesn’t believe in time, notice something: I started to establish the present and the present moved on."

Columbia Street, Brooklyn Heights, New York City

"The New Year reception I have been leading up to. The place was the Moses Beach house on Columbia Street in Brooklyn Heights, then a street inhabited by great merchant families—Thayers, Merritts, Walters, Havilands “of the china Havilands.”"

Governors Island, New York City

"Governors Island, as I imagine that last day of December, would have floated like dirty ice out in the bay;"

Jersey Shore, New Jersey

"… all dressed up in their kookie clothes, with their hair down to their shoulders! You were there. Did it use to be that way? … the Jersey shore would have fumed with slow smokes."

Brooklyn Bridge, New York City

"As she saw it a hundred years ago there were no grimy warehouses thrusting up from the waterfront, there was no Brooklyn Bridge, no Statue of Liberty, no New York skyline."

Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

"He said, “I was at Yale, at the Sheffield Scientific School. My eyes went bad. I was supposed to be going blind.”"

Guilford, Connecticut

"In one of her letters, speaking of a family portrait she saw in the Ward house in Guilford, Grandmother exclaims that the subject has “such a charming last-century face!”"

Des Moines, Iowa

"A medium sort of girl, the sort who, compact in white nylon and white nurses’ shoes, might take your order in a busy lunchroom in Des Moines. Why Des Moines? I don’t know. She just looks that way."

Bay Area, California

"Not Bay Area, anyway. Not that knowing, in spite of the hair."

15th Street, New York City, New York

"John La Farge had spent the afternoon at Augusta’s 15th Street studio, and had read them parts of a poem called The Rubáiyat of Omar Khayyám."

Tehachapi Loop, Tehachapi, California

"while he sweated on the hot mountains surveying the Southern Pacific’s Tehachapi Loop, and later while he boiled alive in the Sutro Tunnel."

Sutro Tunnel, San Francisco, California

"and later while he boiled alive in the Sutro Tunnel."

New York, New York

"instead of moving permanently to New York as she had been planning to do."

Boston, Massachusetts

"…she wrote that Osgood and Company had mysteriously invited her to Boston, and there surprised her with a dinner at which the whole Brahmin population of New England was present."

West Point, New York

"I thought I’d either coax you to land or go with you as far as West Point."

Fishkill Landing, Fishkill, New York

"Fishkill Landing Tuesday night My dear dear girl— Your note came this afternoon just after Bessie and I had been getting your room ready and making your bed…"

Poughkeepsie, New York

"separating themselves from the lights of the Poughkeepsie side."

Albany, New York

"at the last minute she wrote curtly that she must accompany her parents to Albany, and could not come, and she signed herself “Very truly your friend.”"

Brooklyn Heights, New York City

"he was as big and restful as she had found him in the library in Brooklyn Heights,"

New York, New York

"though when her New York friends visited they went early to bed."

Yosemite National Park, California

"Long Pond and Black Pond, liked by New York visitors, were not enough for a man who had seen the Yosemite and ridden the length of the San Joaquin Valley through square miles of wildflowers."

San Joaquin Valley, California

"Long Pond and Black Pond, liked by New York visitors, were not enough for a man who had seen the Yosemite and ridden the length of the San Joaquin Valley through square miles of wildflowers."

Yosemite Falls, Yosemite National Park, California

"At about the same time, and for similar reasons, John Muir was hanging over the brink of Yosemite Falls dizzying himself with the thunder of hundreds of tons of foam and green glass going by him."

Connecticut, United States

"Two days later Oliver left for Connecticut to see his parents for a few days before going back West to hunt a job and prepare a place for her."

San Jose, California

"He wrote that he was to be Resident Engineer of the New Almaden mercury mine near San Jose, an ancient and famous mine that had furnished mercury for the reduction of the gold of the whole Gold Rush."

New Almaden mercury mine, San Jose, California

Clear Lake, California

"For a while Oliver was surveying something for the Southern Pacific around Clear Lake."

San Francisco, California

"Then he was on the loose in San Francisco, refusing to take just anything, turning down the jobs with no future, looking for just the right place that would lead somewhere."

15th Street, New York City, New York

"I imagine it in the studio on 15th Street where they had worked and slept together for four years in their sublimated dream of art’s bachelorhood, and where Susan, looking up from her drawing, had often found Augusta’s dark eyes devouring and caressing her."

Guilford, Connecticut

"Later, from Oliver’s home in Guilford, she wrote to Augusta: I haven’t an anxiety in the world at present, except perhaps lest you may not like my boy when you finally meet him."

New Almaden, California

"Two weeks after Oliver arrived to be married, he was gone again to prepare their house at New Almaden."

Poughkeepsie, New York

"She contemplated wiring him and was embarrassed to think how such a telegram would look to Mr. Sanderson at the station in Poughkeepsie."

Chicago, Illinois

"Susan was barely to Chicago before she scribbled her first postcard."

Little Big Horn, Montana

"It was a difficult parting. Custer’s cavalry had been destroyed on the Little Big Horn less than a month before,"

Long Island, New York, United States

"A subsidiary aunt had taken me in that winter who lived on Long Island, and I crossed by an uptown ferry and walked down."

Omaha, Nebraska, United States

"and a delay in Omaha gave her opportunity to write a five-page letter."

Statue of Liberty, New York City, United States

"As she saw it a hundred years ago there were no grimy warehouses thrusting up from the waterfront, there was no Brooklyn Bridge, no Statue of Liberty, no New York skyline."

Milton, Massachusetts

"She went back to Milton abruptly, instead of moving permanently to New York as she had been planning to do."

Grass Valley, California

"The Nevada City that I remember died quietly, along with Grass Valley, when the quartz mines closed down."

New Almaden, California

"Angle of Repose II NEW ALMADEN"

New Almaden, California

"Nothing on the trip to New Almaden next day modified her understanding that her lot at first would be hardship. She anticipated her life in New Almaden as she had looked forward to the train journey across the continent."

San Francisco, California

"The day she spent resting with Oliver’s sister Mary Prager in San Francisco she understood to be the last day of the East, not the first of the West."

San Jose, California

"In San Jose a stage with black leather curtains waited; they were the only passengers."

Guilford, Connecticut

"…a young mining engineer who as soon as he had established himself in his profession would be able to provide such a house and life as this, preferably near Guilford, Connecticut, or Milton, New York."

Fiji, Oceania

"From the piazza he brought one of the packages that had been part of their luggage down from San Francisco. She opened it and pulled out a grass fan. “Fiji,” Oliver said."

Japan, Asia

"Next a paper parasol that opened up to a view of Fujiyama. “Japan,” Oliver said. “Don’t open it inside—bad luck.”"

Loma Prieta, California

"Turning back the way she had come in, she saw those five parallel spurs ... I know that mountain, old Loma Prieta. In nearly a hundred years it has changed less than most of California."

Leadville, Colorado

"The fan and the parasol went quickly, the mat lasted until Leadville and was mourned when it passed, the olla has come through three generations of us..."

Omaha, Nebraska, United States

"… scribbling her impressions of Omaha."

Almaden, California, United States

"all the days of her getting used to Almaden, Augusta and Thomas had been suffering their sorrow."

Boise Creek, California, United States

"another taken at the engineer’s camp on the bank of Boise Creek in the 1880s, with a home-made rowboat at her feet and a tent pitched in the background and her third baby on her shoulder."

San Jose Mountains, California, United States

"Every night after supper they sat together in the hammock and watched the sun leave the floating crest of the San Jose Mountains eastward, and the valley’s pool of dusty air thicken, darken, flare up, and fade."

La Moille House, San Jose, California, United States

"our lunch at the La Moille House was made doubly pleasant by the letters which Eugene the stage driver handed us just as we entered the hotel."

Cliff House, San Francisco, California, United States

"We drove on the sands below the Cliff House and through the Park."

Freiburg, Germany

"Mr. Prager was educated at Freiburg and, pleasantly enough, two or three of his fellow students–Ashburner, Janin, etc.–are now in San Francisco."

Dusseldorf, Germany

"She and the baron were eagerly tracing the relations of the Dusseldorf painters to the Hudson River school, and discussing the advantages and disadvantages of studying art abroad."

South America

"They have been in strange countries–Japan, Mexico, South America, and those queer islands which it is so hard to remember geographically."

San Francisco, California

"You cannot think what a bond it was between me and the ladies I met in San Francisco–our loving remembrance of our old homes."

New Almaden, California

"I am so afraid when you see me again you will find me poor and common. New Almaden, Dec. 11, 1876"

New Almaden, California

"Leaving, Mary Prager held their hands and hoped they would be spared the footloose life common to the profession. Why should they ever leave New Almaden?"

New York, New York

"Though the weekly letters still poured back to New York, the tone of them is serene, excited, amused, anything but homesick or desperate."

San Francisco, California

"Mr. Hamilton Smith, one of Conrad Prager’s associates, and the consulting engineer for the mine, stopped off for dinner, sending her scurrying in panic up to Mexican Camp for a steak, for Mr. Smith was one of those formidable dining out San Franciscans."

Santa Cruz, California

"Come, come to Santa Cruz! Mrs. Elliott said as she departed."

Brook Farm, Massachusetts

"In her youth she too had had another identity: she had been Georgiana Bruce, and she was one of the Brook Farm transcendentalists."

San Francisco, California

"all the day she had rested in San Francisco"

San Francisco, California

"Your last letter came to us on our way from the mine to San Francisco for our Thanksgiving excursion."

Mexico City, Mexico

"They have been in strange countries–Japan, Mexico, South America, and those queer islands which it is so hard to remember geographically."

Japan, Asia

"They have been in strange countries–Japan, Mexico, South America, and those queer islands which it is so hard to remember geographically."

San Jose, California

"I enjoyed the ride on top of the stage through the fog to San Jose, and our lunch at the La Moille House was made doubly pleasant by the letters which Eugene the stage driver handed us just as we entered the hotel."

New Almaden, California

"New Almaden, Dec. 2, 1876 My dear girl– Your last letter came to us on our way from the mine to San Francisco for our Thanksgiving excursion."

Milton, Massachusetts

"I never felt so free in my life, and strange to say it does not seem far off. I feel as if you were as near as at Milton."

Mexican Camp, New Almaden, California

Milton, Massachusetts

"Here came Howie Drew, a boy from Milton bent on finding his fortune in the West, and spent a weekend investigating the possibilities of New Almaden, and was advised by Oliver to move on."

Milton, Massachusetts

"roll down the pasture hill in Milton when they were children."

New Almaden, California

"there came a letter from Thomas Hudson enthusiastically buying the New Almaden sketch, with whatever illustrations Susan could provide."

Guadalupe, California

"I came out at noon and had a good mule ride over to Guadalupe."

Santa Isabel, California

"Remember that hoisting machinery Kendall was going to put in at the Santa Isabel, the rig he saw in the Sierra, that I didn’t like the looks of?"

Sierra Nevada, California

"the rig he saw in the Sierra, that I didn’t like the looks of?"

Mexican Camp, New Almaden, California

"she was well enough to go out sketching in the open air, hunting the local color of Mexican Camp, Cornish Camp, and the mine."

Cornish Camp, New Almaden, California

"she was well enough to go out sketching in the open air, hunting the local color of Mexican Camp, Cornish Camp, and the mine."

Cornwall, England, United Kingdom

"… when a miner who emerged from a deep hole in Cornwall could do no better than dive down another in California, and when his children were carrying water to the mine at ten and pushing an ore car at fifteen."

California, United States

New Almaden, California

"Yet how would she get close to those lives to draw them? She had lived in New Almaden nearly a year and had seen only its picturesque surface."

Santa Cruz, California

"‘For you and the baby, I was wondering if Mrs. Elliott could find you a nice room in Santa Cruz, somewhere cheap and quiet and on the shore.’"

San Francisco, California

"Where will we go?' she asked. 'San Francisco?"

Boston, Massachusetts

"It is all owned in Boston and Philadelphia and New York and London."

New York, New York

"It is all owned in Boston and Philadelphia and New York and London."

London, England

"It is all owned in Boston and Philadelphia and New York and London."

Santa Cruz, California

"Angle of Repose III SANTA CRUZ"

Berkeley, California

"Ada has a version of Shelly’s experiences in Berkeley which seems to me unduly protective of her daughter."

Santa Cruz, California

"Shelly was pulling out of the files all the Santa Cruz papers I was going to need for today: the letters, the illustrated article called “A Seaport on the Pacific,” some maps, some local histories."

Idaho, United States

"One thing I did decide to do, and I did it the first thing this morning, was to go through the Idaho file and pull out a few of the letters."

Santa Cruz, California

"Among the papers that Shelly laid out for me the other afternoon is the February 1879 issue of Century containing Grandmother’s article on Santa Cruz, with ten woodcut illustrations by the author."

Monterey, California

"Southward, toward Monterey and the sun, the sea went from white foam to heaving green glass to the mirror-like glitter of floating kelp."

Potosí, Bolivia

"“You know I’d go to Potosí if it weren’t for the baby. I’d probably love it. I’m not afraid of roughing it, you know I’m not.”"

La Paz, Bolivia

"“I wasn’t going to ask you to rough it. I don’t think you should have to. I was thinking you could live in La Paz, where it’s civilized. I could get in every few weeks.”"

Milton, Massachusetts

"“I suppose I could take Boy back to Milton.”"

Japan, Asia

"“I want us to buy this laguna and this promontory and build a house that looks right straight out at Japan.”"

Santa Cruz, California

"‘I’ve got one thing to report,’ she said. “Thomas has definitely commissioned the Santa Cruz article. I’ve been drawing every day. I even drew one of Mrs. Elliott’s dreadful daughters and made her look quite presentable.”"

San Francisco, California

"“But you’re the engineer’s wife. No San Francisco banker is going to cave in that easy.”"

Potosí, Bolivia

"“Oh, isn’t it wonderful? I’m proud of thee. I knew thee could do it. Isn’t thee glad now we didn’t go to Potosí?”"

Pigeon Point, California

"Did you read about that boy and his father that were drowned at Pigeon Point the other day, after abalones at low tide?"

New York, New York

"She had been remembering all day how Christmas used to be at Milton, and how the whole week between Christmas and New Year used to be spent at receptions and house parties in New York."

Andes, South America

"If you didn’t, you’d be up in the Andes right now."

Paris, France

"Mr. Prager has been appointed one of the commissioners to the Paris Exposition."

Santa Cruz, California

"I sent you yesterday the large block and the vignette for my Santa Cruz article."

New Haven, Connecticut, United States

"Something happened to her man, or maybe she never had one. She’s sort of aground there in New Haven. She’ll come for her fare and servant’s wages."

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

"It is all owned in Boston and Philadelphia and New York and London."

New Almaden, California

"Without the pictures I could never have imagined it as it was when they came down to it from New Almaden."

Upstate New York, New York, United States

"It may be, as she has told me, that Larry Rasmussen when Shelly met him was a nice clean boy from upstate New York who came out to Berkeley to get a degree in anthropology, and fell in with the wrong companions."

Permanente, California

"Decades later, over the mountain at Permanente, not too far from New Almaden, Henry Kaiser would make a very good thing indeed out of the argillaceous and calcareous that Oliver Ward forced into an insoluble marriage in the winter of 1877."

New Almaden, California

Santa Cruz, California

"My feelings about this are mixed, for it would have made me uneasy to be descended from Santa Cruz cement."

Deadwood, South Dakota

"I feel like telling him to forget Deadwood. There never was anything there for a man like him."

Sandwich Islands, Hawaii

"Marian Prouse, that large, soft, surprisingly adventurous young woman, would go on even farther west, to the Sandwich Islands, and there would marry a sugar planter and live on a beach more romantic than the one Grandmother coveted in Santa Cruz–a beach of silvery sand above Lahaina, on Maui, where coconut palms lean to frame the hump of Lanai across the Auau Channel."

Lahaina, Hawaii

"…live on a beach more romantic than the one Grandmother coveted in Santa Cruz–a beach of silvery sand above Lahaina, on Maui, where coconut palms lean to frame the hump of Lanai across the Auau Channel."

Maui, Hawaii

Lanai, Hawaii

"…where coconut palms lean to frame the hump of Lanai across the Auau Channel."

Auau Channel, Hawaii

"…where coconut palms lean to frame the hump of Lanai across the Auau Channel."

Chicago, Illinois

"She would not let Conrad send a telegram from Chicago to announce her arrival, because she did not want to make her father or John Grant spend a night in Poughkeepsie to meet her late train."

Poughkeepsie, New York

"But their train, delayed by the universal floods, pulled into Poughkeepsie at four o’clock in the morning."

New York, New York

"He wanted her to come on with them to New York, take a room there, and come back rested the next day, but she would not."

New Paltz Landing, New York

"At New Paltz Landing they would leave their luggage for John to pick up in the buggy, and they would walk up the lane that ran through her childhood, between fields familiar from the time she learned to walk."

Wood Mountain, Saskatchewan, Canada

"When he started for there, Custer’s cavalry had been two years dead, and the Sioux were either behind reservation fences or gnawing the bones of exile in the Wood Mountain and Cypress Hills country beyond the Canadian line."

Cypress Hills, Saskatchewan, Canada

San Jose, California

"On the radio news, while the percolator bubbles toward its red‐light stop, I hear about the child killed by wild dogs in San Jose, the hundred pounds of marijuana seized in North Beach, the school board meeting broken up by blacks in Daly City, the wife shot by her husband after a quarrel in an Oakland bar, the latest university riot, the Vietnam score."

North Beach, San Francisco, California

Daly City, California

Oakland, California

San Francisco, California

"From the weather‐alert man I learn that the day (again) will be fair, with patches of morning fog near the coast, winds from the northwest 5 to 15 miles per hour, temperatures 65 to 70 in San Francisco, 80 to 85 in Santa Rosa, 85 to 90 in San Jose. That means 90 to 95 up here."

Santa Rosa, California

Menlo Park, California

"Under that one light unstirred by movement or shadows there is a man at work, and as long as I am at work I am not a candidate for Menlo Park, or that terminal facility they cynically call a convalescent hospital, or a pine box."

Waldo Grade, Oakland, California

"I follow by traffic‐alert helicopter the state of the traffic on the Waldo Grade, the Bay Bridge, the Bayshore, the Alemany Interchange."

Platte River, Nebraska, United States

"Miles of brown grass, raw cutbanks, flooded creeks coming down into the flooded bottoms of the Platte where bare cottonwoods seemed to grow out of a slough, and the benches of the flood plain, seen through rain that swept along the train and rattled on the windows, were the banks of a dreary lake."

Milton, Massachusetts

"If nothing happens, I shall spend the apple blossom time in Milton, and the summer around generally, and not rejoin Oliver until at least the fall."

Cheyenne, Wyoming

"but if he can come with us as far as Cheyenne, that will be four days together."

Deadwood, South Dakota

"He is at present negotiating about a place in Deadwood, Dakota Territory, the wildest of the wilds, where I cannot possibly take Ollie."

Bay Bridge, San Francisco, California

"I follow by traffic‐alert helicopter the state of the traffic on the Waldo Grade, the Bay Bridge, the Bayshore, the Alemany Interchange."

Bayshore, San Francisco, California

"I follow by traffic‐alert helicopter the state of the traffic on the Waldo Grade, the Bay Bridge, the Bayshore, the Alemany Interchange."

Alemany Interchange, San Francisco, California

"I follow by traffic‐alert helicopter the state of the traffic on the Waldo Grade, the Bay Bridge, the Bayshore, the Alemany Interchange."

Grass Valley, California

"‘He loves it here,’ she said, and shook her hair back, laughing her ho ho ho. 'Isn’t it a gas? He loves the country. Why didn’t you tell me about Grass Valley?’ he asks me. This is a place, this isn’t just Anywheresville. This is a place where a man could live."

Gethsemane, Jerusalem, Israel

"At three, leaving her to type whatever needs typing, and get ready whatever papers I will need the next morning, I go down into the garden for my daily Gethsemane with the crutches."

The Emporium, San Francisco, California

"‘Canaries,’ the driver said. ‘Canaries?’ ‘Twenty‐four canaries from the Emporium in the City. Where do you want ’em?’"

Leadville, Colorado

"Angle of Repose IV LEADVILLE"

Deadwood, South Dakota

"I’ve got her back to Milton, New York. Grandfather’s in Deadwood."

Cheyenne, Wyoming

"… and got on the stage for Cheyenne, and then on the train for Denver, and on the Denver train he met a little farmerish man who said he owned a mine in Leadville that some jumpers were trying to horn in on …"

Denver, Colorado

"… and then on the train for Denver, and on the Denver train he met a little farmerish man who said he owned a mine in Leadville that some jumpers were trying to horn in on …"

Leadville, Colorado

"… on the Denver train he met a little farmerish man who said he owned a mine in Leadville that some jumpers were trying to horn in on …"

Homestake Mine, Lead, South Dakota

"Building a mill ditch for George Hearst’s Homestake mine. Ever hear of the Homestake? Last time I looked it had produced a half billion in gold."

Walnut Creek, California

"“She’s taken an apartment in Walnut Creek.”"

Bella Union Theater, Deadwood, South Dakota

"Ever see Buffalo Bill Cody and Captain Jack Crawford ride their horses onto the stage of the Bella Union Theater to re-create Buffalo Bill’s single-handed killing and scalping of the Oglala chief Yellow Hand?"

Denver, Colorado

"When it finally crawled between lines of side‐tracked boxcars and died with a hiss at the Denver platform, she was on tiptoe behind the porter in the vestibule."

Leadville, Colorado

"…but before he felt Leadville was prepared for her?"

Deadwood, South Dakota

"I wouldn’t take him to Deadwood because I was afraid in a rough camp like that he’d get sick and I’d be lonely."

Cheyenne, Wyoming

"‘Dennis McGuire. He drove the stage from Cheyenne to Deadwood last spring, that famous thirteen‐day ride over a four‐day road.’"

South Platte River, Colorado

"…while the train dug into the mountain beside a torrent that Oliver said was the South Platte."

New Almaden, California

"Now we can have a good trip in, together. It’ll be like going in to New Almaden for the first time."

Old Woman Fork, Colorado

"‘Hey there, Mister Ward! How’d you like a swim in the Old Woman Fork tonight?’"

Fairplay, Colorado, United States

"“So do I. I could do without the town of Fairplay, though.”"

English George’s, Colorado, United States

"Maybe we could leave the sick one and you could ride the other . . . No, no saddle or anything. We’ll just have to drive him. He might hold out to English George’s."

Mosquito Pass, Colorado, United States

"That day in June 1879, they came down off Mosquito Pass silent and constrained, she scared and sulky, he worried and somewhat bruised in spirit at being thought a brute."

Lake Leman, Switzerland

"Can you imagine her opening a letter describing last night, and reading it aloud to Thomas at breakfast in some grand hotel dining room on Lake Leman or somewhere, with all of civilized Europe looking in the window?"

Sawatch Range, Colorado, United States

"Down to the right she could see packed roofs, and beyond them smelter smokes. All across the West were the peaks she knew were the Sawatch Range."

Mosquito Pass, Colorado, United States

"“Ah, welcome to Leadville!” he said. “What kind of trip did you have? How’d you like Mosquito Pass?”"

Daniel and Fisher’s, Denver, Colorado, United States

"“Can I buy some calico for curtains?” “I’ll take you to Daniel and Fisher’s tomorrow.”"

Rocky Mountains, United States

"…under the rough and ridiculous circumstances of life in the Rocky Mountains there was something exciting and vital, full of rude poetry: the heartbeat of the West as it fought its way upward toward civilization."

New Almaden, California

"“Still remind you of staging in to New Almaden?” Oliver said."

New Almaden, California

"“We agreed it was a mistake for me to stay so far out of things at New Almaden.” “This isn’t New Almaden.”"

Leadville, Colorado

"The horse died after we got to English George’s, and there we hired another, or the remains of one, and he died the day after we reached Leadville."

Leadville, Colorado

"Angle of Repose 3 Leadville made its appearance as a long gulch (Evans) littered with wreckage, shacks, and mine tailings."

Leadville, Colorado

"Even in a Leadville cabin she was coddled."

Milton, Massachusetts

"I’ve got her back to Milton, New York. Grandfather’s in Deadwood."

Fairplay, Colorado, United States

"…the Denver, South Park & Pacific narrow gauge that would take them to Fairplay would leave in less than an hour."

Mosquito Pass, Colorado, United States

"Tell me about Mosquito Pass, is it as horrible as it looked in Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper? Dead horses and wrecked wagons and frightful precipices?"

Amherst, Massachusetts, United States

"if Helen Hunt of Amherst, Massachusetts, was not lost when she became Helen Hunt Jackson of Denver, then why should Susan Burling of Milton, New York, lose her identity now that she was Susan Burling Ward of Leadville?"

Mosquito Pass, Colorado, United States

"the Clarendon Hotel heard the accents of Boston, New York, and London; Mosquito Pass was a major flyway for migrating mining experts and capitalists."

Clarendon Hotel, Leadville, Colorado, United States

"the Clarendon Hotel heard the accents of Boston, New York, and London; Mosquito Pass was a major flyway for migrating mining experts and capitalists."

Carson Valley, Nevada, United States

"riding clothes, like those of Emmons, were made by London tailors out of snow-white deerskins dressed by Paiute squaws in the Carson Valley of Nevada."

California, United States

"We had fish chowder (canned) from Boston, white muscat grapes (canned) from California, tea (English breakfast, contributed by Mr. Ward)"

Great Western Amphitheater, Leadville, Colorado, United States

"Nothing can be done here, from a tightrope performance to a show by a lot of short-skirted girls at the Great Western Amphitheater, without a band."

San Francisco, California

"But Oliver had been unable to persuade anybody in San Francisco to put money behind his demonstrated formula for hydraulic cement."

Bank of England, London, England

"…it’s like letting thieves into the vaults of the Bank of England and then knighting them for crying ‘Stop thief!’ after they’ve stolen everything."

Leadville, Colorado

"My dear Susan, without your house Leadville would be a desert."

White House, Washington, D.C.

"don’t tell Mrs. Jackson, but I have my valet steal it from the White House cellar."

MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts

"Frank’s got a degree from MIT, which is more than I’ve got."

California, United States

"…if he joined the Survey he’d be posted for winter field work in California, and the next summer he might be almost anywhere in the West."

Canada

"…sleeping in the washrooms of Canadian tourist parks in the rain."

Sicily, Italy

"She reported scraps of Augusta’s travels in Sicily."

Mosquito Pass, Colorado, United States

"She wouldn’t have to come over Mosquito Pass when she came."

Arkansas River Valley, Colorado, United States

"Nothing else to report except that the DR&G was making progress up the valley of the Arkansas."

Sawatch Range, Colorado, United States

"Watching a wintry sky die out beyond black elms, she could not make her mind restore the sight of the Sawatch at sunset from her cabin door."

Black Hills, South Dakota, United States

"this inappropriate souvenir of her husband’s life in the Black Hills."

Trinity Church, New York City, New York, United States

"General Vinton, son of Dr. Vinton of Trinity Church, to his Leadville grave."

Royal Gorge, Colorado

"Snow blew down the Royal Gorge in a horizontal blur."

Cheyenne, Wyoming

"squinting into the sun as the train pulled away eastward from the Cheyenne station"

Denver, Colorado

"or searching for her over the heads of the crowd in Denver."

Leadville, Colorado

"‘That’s Leadville. That’s what we chose.’"

Deadwood, South Dakota

"‘Beaver?’ she said. ‘Yes, those you sent me from Deadwood.’"

New Almaden, California

"she told him how she had swung him in it in New Almaden when he was brand new."

Lake Fork, Colorado, United States

"‘Pricey, remember that day last summer when we were riding on the Lake Fork?’"

Chicago, Illinois

"In Chicago, Ferd Ward and Mr. Grant took her to a banquet honoring General Grant, and she capped her social season by shaking that conquering hand and looking into those sad, streaked eyes."

San Francisco, California

"More than once she thought how wrong those women in San Francisco had been, convinced that their old homes did not welcome them on their return."

Boston, Massachusetts

"the Clarendon Hotel heard the accents of Boston, New York, and London."

the Alps, Europe

"and then following the spring northward into the Alps."

London, England

"the Clarendon Hotel heard the accents of Boston, New York, and London."

Santa Cruz, California

"…once on the honeymoon, once at Santa Cruz, now once in Leadville."

Denver, Colorado

"if Helen Hunt of Amherst, Massachusetts, was not lost when she became Helen Hunt Jackson of Denver"

Arkansas River, United States

"The dark, foaming, ice-shored river was so unlike the infant Arkansas that she used to ford on her horse."

New Almaden, California

"the Fiji mat and the olla with which Oliver had welcomed her to New Almaden."

Leadville, Colorado

"…once on the honeymoon, once at Santa Cruz, now once in Leadville."

Leadville, Colorado

"Early in November, their eyes watchful of a leaden sky that dusted them with snow, a characteristic Leadville buggy‐full went over the pass, accompanied by a half dozen riders."

Guilford, Connecticut

"‘I’ve got some cousins in Guilford, girls, eighteen or so. Maybe we could bring one of those out’"

Milton, Massachusetts

"Milton and its opening apple blossoms were part of another, gentler creation."

Deadwood, South Dakota

"The beaver skins that Oliver had sent her from Deadwood were a trouble."

Buena Vista, California

"But at the moment of arrival at Buena Vista she did not see him as plainly as she had drawn him on the glass."

Twin Lakes, Colorado, United States

"Now that Leadville’s summer had finally arrived, there would be more ladies–they might have a picnic at Twin Lakes for the Fourth."

Leadville, Colorado

"Frank would come home and find him gone, and then he’d have to hunt all over Leadville for him. Once he was in jail–where else would Leadville put a fellow that can’t look after himself?"

Denver, Colorado

"Frank took him as far as Denver and put him on the Santa Fe and paid the porter to look after him to New York."

New York, New York

"Frank took him as far as Denver and put him on the Santa Fe and paid the porter to look after him to New York."

Potosí, Bolivia

"Where is it? Off on some mountaintop, like Leadville or Potosí?"

Michoacán, Mexico

"They’ve got an option on a mine in Michoacán."

Michoacán, Mexico

"Angle of Repose V MICHOACĂN"

Idaho, United States

"My father, despite his Idaho governess, had gone to St. Paul’s badly prepared, an inferior Western child."

Chapultepec, Mexico City, Mexico

"I was thinking Chapultepec, maybe, where all the young cadets held off the U. S. Army."

Orizaba, Veracruz, Mexico

"Then after five days they went on deck one morning and saw a rosy snow‐peak floating high on a white bed of cloud: Orizaba."

Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico

"At two o’clock in the morning, after twenty‐three hours on the road, they crashed through the silent streets of Morelia, past what her fellow passengers murmured was San Pedro Park, and into the courtyard of the Hotel Michoacán."

San Pedro Park, Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico

"past what her fellow passengers murmured was San Pedro Park"

Toluca, State of Mexico, Mexico

"Toluca with its sixteenth‐century profile of bell towers, terraced roofs, tiled domes, and cypresses;"

Maravatio, Michoacán, Mexico

"She saw a bullfight in Maravatio and was sickened by it, but got her sketches just the same."

Paris, France

"Mexico was my Paris and my Rome."

Rome, Italy

"Mexico was my Paris and my Rome."

Seville, Spain

"a ranch whose stone water-works seemed to her to rival those of Seville,"

New Almaden, California

"There was nobody at New Almaden like Emelita, either."

Leadville, Colorado

"I don’t know. It may not work out that way at all. But if it did, it would be a way out of the Leadville box."

Potosí, Bolivia

"It’s also a long way out of the world, almost as far out as Potosí."

Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico

"The stairway was the finest in Morelia. The ladies posed for her at the head of the steps, black against the pink stone, docile, smiling, their faces pale and soft like the faces of nuns."

Colorado, United States

"Down below her, Oliver was the only familiar thing, and he, wearing what he would have worn in Colorado, looked very shabby to her critical eye."

Chihuahua, Mexico

"In surprise he looked down at himself: corduroy pants, leather shirt, revolver, bowie, big iron spurs. “Why, it’s authentic Colorado. And the spurs are authentic Chihuahua.”"

Veracruz, Mexico

"There were crates of chickens, hampers of fresh fruits and vegetables, hampers of canned goods and vintage wines that had already traveled from Europe by ship, and from Veracruz and Mexico City by train, diligence, and packhorse."

Mexico City, Mexico

Limoges, France

"There were bundles of silver knives and forks and spoons wrapped in soft deerskin, china that from the corredor she thought she recognized as Limoges."

Michoacán, Mexico

"“You keep your eyes open, eh? Maybe we could do worse than Michoacán.”"

Sixth Avenue, New York City

"Susan, seeing him at breakfast the morning before, had thought him the sort of little dark man of fifty who might have sold dry goods on Sixth Avenue, but she revised her opinion as she labored to catch his likeness from the corredor."

Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

"“Or the Adelaide,” he said, and pulled his mouth down."

Little Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

"“You too. Find a mine richer than the Little Pittsburgh.”"

Veracruz, Mexico

"they steamed into the harbor of Veracruz, and Mexico rose before Susan Ward like something rubbed up out of a lamp."

Nevada, United States

"Many a taste bud in Grass Valley and Nevada City, blunted by sixty years of greasy french fries, ketchup, and bourbon, must remember as mine do the taste of sun-warmed nectarines and Satsuma plums up there in the end of the orchard."

Grass Valley, California

"As those things went in Grass Valley, I also grew up privileged, son of the superintendent of the Zodiac and grandson of the general manager."

Southampton, United Kingdom

"I wired the Syndicate to have somebody meet him and put him on the boat, and cabled his father to meet him at Southampton."

Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States

"Frank took him as far as Denver and put him on the Santa Fe and paid the porter to look after him to New York."

New Almaden, California

"packmules and burros, old subjects from New Almaden;"

Leadville, Colorado

"But oh, how different from Leadville!"

Leadville, Colorado

"Again she was struck by the contrast with Leadville. There, when Oliver and Frank went out on a mine inspection, they wore buckskin and corduroy and battered felt hats."

Boise, Idaho

"she sent my poor scared twelve‐year‐old father out of Boise to attend St. Paul’s School and become an Eastern gentleman."

Europe

Casa Walkenhorst, Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico

"I am settled as happy as a worm in an apple at the Casa Walkenhorst, the home of Morelia’s Prussian banker."

Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico

"Morelia isn’t Paris, but it is gorgeously picturesque. Much of it is made of a soft pink stone that in certain lights, or when wetted by a shower, glows almost rose."

Mexico City, Mexico

"I have been keeping back this letter for the post that leaves tomorrow for Mexico City."

Paris, France

"Morelia isn’t Paris, but it is gorgeously picturesque."

Plaza of the Martyrs, Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico

"The church bells are solemn across the Plaza of the Martyrs."

Leadville, Colorado

"“You mean we not only can’t stay here, we can’t go back to Leadville either.”"

Leadville, Colorado

"At the bottom of one carpetbag were her Colorado riding clothes, never used since she had packed them in Leadville."

Mexico City, Mexico

"she rode the two hundred and fifty miles to Mexico City in a little over five days, and on the way, literally writing and drawing in the saddle, made all the notes and some of the sketches for a third Century article."

Santa Cruz, California

"End of dream number three, which like the Santa Cruz dream was more hers than his."

New Almaden, California

"Did you know I’ve kept every single letter from you, ever since you went out to New Almaden?"

Leadville, Colorado

"I'm doing a novel about Leadville."

Coeur d'Alene, Idaho

"he went up to look into a gold strike in the Coeur d‐Alene country of Idaho"

Boise, Idaho

"he’s in Boise, the territorial capital"

Tombstone, Arizona

"Tombstone–really, what a name! Is that where Oliver is, too?"

New York, New York

"with Oliver in New York an evening like this would simply not have happened"

Milton, Massachusetts

"I’d have to go back to Milton and work hard for a week to take the bubbles out of my blood"

Oregon, United States

"The Oregon Short-line will go through it and put it on the main line to Oregon."

Potosí, Bolivia

"That’s the sort of arrangement you didn’t want when we were talking about Potosí."

Snake River, Idaho, United States

"That’s when we’ll build the dam and lengthen the canal line clear to the Snake."

Idaho, United States

"I have a copy of it here. 'The Idaho Mining and Irrigation Company,' it says."

New Almaden, California

"…that hung on the piazza in New Almaden, and later served as a bed for Ollie in Leadville."

Leadville, Colorado

"…and later served as a bed for Ollie in Leadville."

Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico

"…as the bugles from the cavalry post just above us mark off the days as inexorably as the whistles of New Almaden or the church bells of Morelia."

Boise River, Idaho

"From a mile or two away, unless one is on a high place, neither the Boise nor the Snake can be seen at all, sunken in their canyons."

Coeur d'Alene, Idaho

"…it was good for me to see it as he first saw it when he came down from the Coeur d’Alene and was struck by his great idea."

Granger, Wyoming Territory

"Coming out, we had to leave the Union Pacific at Granger, in Wyoming Territory, and board the single passenger car attached to a construction train on the Oregon Shortline..."

Kuna, Idaho

"Oliver met us with a democrat wagon at Kuna, the end of the line."

Mexico City, Mexico

"Hecho en Mejico,' he said. 'Yes. She’s one thing we got out of that."

Mexico City, Mexico

"“So it’s certain that he at least isn’t going to ask you to do any more in Mexico.”"

Argentina, South America

"“If the Adelaide ever settles its troubles with the Argentina and the Highland Chief and gets to be a working mine again, I’m not likely to be running that, either.”"

Germany, Europe

"Emelita tells me of the house of the town advocate–I believe there is only one–who is in Germany seeking relief for his gout."

Leadville, Colorado

"After all that sickness in Leadville, and all the moving he has done in his short life, he deserves a safe home."

Poughkeepsie, New York

"Mother and Bessie and the children have gone over to Poughkeepsie shopping."

Boise Creek, California, United States

"She read two interviews with settlers already irrigating out of Boise Creek, and thought them enthusiasts of the same stripe as her husband."

Mosquito Pass, Colorado, United States

"she has been over Mosquito Pass in a buckboard"

Sawatch Range, Colorado, United States

"She saw him on the morning of their departure, when the two of them stood among the boxes and bags in the cabin whose door stood open on the fume of Leadville and the front‐lighted Sawatch."

Boise, Idaho

"Boise’s not a village, it’s a little city, the territorial capital. The Oregon Short-line will go through it and put it on the main line to Oregon."

Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico

"You were going to take a tutor along to Morelia. Why not to Boise?"

Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

"“What you’ve been doing in the Adelaide.”"

Burgundy, New Orleans, Louisiana

"a lugubrious wooden saint from a Burgundian church"

Snake River, Idaho, United States

"From a mile or two away, unless one is on a high place, neither the Boise nor the Snake can be seen at all, sunken in their canyons."

Tombstone, Arizona

"…he has not been able to evade them entirely in Tombstone, as dreadful a camp as the West ever spawned."

Boston, Massachusetts

"Oliver’s other young assistant is a Boston Tech man named Wiley."

India, South Asia

"…and reports on systems in Persia, India, China, everywhere."

Boise, Idaho

"P.O. Box 311 Boise City May 17, 1883"

London, England

"There was no way to stop her, she was already on her way from London, where she had been teaching the children of an American diplomat."

Idaho, United States

"Nothing like her has ever been seen in Idaho."

Arrow Rock Dam, Idaho, United States

"Among my grandfather’s few papers, along with offprints of his articles in Irrigation News and Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, is a government publication on the Arrow Rock Dam, at the time of its completion the highest in the world."

Sawtooth Range, Idaho, United States

"…but also pukka sahib of the Sawtooths, on his way to prove to careful money men that his scheme is sound and that its creator, young as he looks, is a man of skill, judgment, and experience."

Idaho, United States

"Let me tell you how it is done in primitive Idaho."

Boise Canyon, Idaho

"I have made no chronology of their years in Boise Canyon. Except for a flurry during 1887, when for a while it seemed as if Henry Villard might find a place for them in his empire-building schemes, most of Grandmother’s letters are dated only by month and day, and could have been written any time between 1883 and 1888."

South Platte, Colorado

"Wiley’s came first–an irrigation project on the South Platte, in Colorado. He left them, swearing it would take only a telegram to pry him loose from any job in the world and return him to the canyon."

Idaho, United States

"By now, after three years of the Idaho Mining and Irrigation Company, she was providing more than half of what they lived on."

New Almaden, California

"…in the comfortable cottage at New Almaden, with Lizzie and Marian Prouse and Oliver all building a protective cushion around her and the doctor only an hour away at Guadalupe;"

Guadalupe, California

"…with Lizzie and Marian Prouse and Oliver all building a protective cushion around her and the doctor only an hour away at Guadalupe;"

Boise, Idaho

"When he got back he could ride down to the Olpen ranch, send Mrs. Olpen up, and go back into Boise for the doctor."

Milton, Massachusetts

"…and the second, in her old room in Milton, where she could hear Bessie’s step in the hall, and see her mother’s face look in the door every time she sighed or coughed."

Boise Canyon, Idaho

"It is an effort for me to imagine my way backward from the silent father I knew to the boy in Boise Canyon."

Sawtooths, Idaho

"In the northwest the sun had broken around the lower slope of Midsummer Mountain and was sending a last long wink across the Sawtooths, straight into the black mass of rain cloud."

Arrow Rock, Missouri

"…a precise, focused miniature in the streak of moonlight across the shoulder of Arrow Rock."

Leadville, Colorado

"she had never worried about him in that way even in Leadville after Pricey’s beating, when he rode to work armed, through enemies who would have drygulched him if they dared."

Boise, Idaho

"What must he have been when he left Boise?"

New York, New York

"I don’t want to take any of those long train rides to New York, where General Tompkins periodically got a fire going in some handful of damp financial shavings."

Menlo Park, California

"I even find myself bending toward the notion of an inane tranquilized existence in Rodman’s Menlo Park pasture."

Boise, Idaho

"Even if there had been places she wanted to go, she would not have left the canyon: she had no clothes she considered decent, and she would not appear in Boise visibly shabby-genteel."

Leadville, Colorado

"(there was an echo of one of those evenings in Leadville)."

Snake River Basin, Idaho

"taking as his province the Snake River Basin on which he had already done much work?"

Arrow Rock, Missouri

"He walked away from her and sat on the table, looking out the window down toward the bridge and Arrow Rock."

Yuba River, California

"Dad. He said your grandfather owned this underground placer up on the Yuba, and Dad’s father used to drive him up there every once in a while to inspect. They were cheating him blind, Dad says."

China, Asia

"…and reports on systems in Persia, India, China, everywhere."

Mexico City, Mexico

"…the hunt ended, down across the line in Mexico, with the murderer swinging from a tree."

Santa Cruz, California

"…held together with cement that Oliver made of the earth beneath our feet—that experiment with cement in Santa Cruz has finally proved useful after all."

Baltimore, Maryland, United States

"The likeliest prospects seem to be the Keysers of Baltimore, who are connected with the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad."

Arrow Rock, Missouri

"Just below the mouth of their gulch the cliffs pinched in, and the pinnacle called Arrow Rock, into whose slot Indians were supposed to have shot arrows to appease or subdue the spirits, stood up close against one wall."

Persia, Iran

"…and reports on systems in Persia, India, China, everywhere."

New Almaden, California

"Oliver understands tanning–the children still use between their beds a rug of wildcat skins that he tanned and sewed in New Almaden–and with plenty of cattle and sheep hides available for a song, he promises that our entire library will be in leather by spring."

Boise Canyon, Idaho

"Naturally I never saw the camp in Boise Canyon. Before I was old enough to hear about it, it was three hundred feet under water."

Kellogg, Idaho, United States

"When jobs were offered Oliver–a mine in Kellogg, a bureau in the Governor’s office–she closed her mouth on the impulse to influence him."

Yuba Canyon, California

"That’s why it seems so funny he’d have to take these three‐day trips up Yuba Canyon and put on these big drunks with his driver. Just drink till he went to sleep, and then sleep it off and come home again."

Berkeley, California

"If Shelly goes back to Berkeley next month, as she makes noises about doing, I shall have more privacy and probably make even slower progress."

Arch Street, Nevada City

"Did she ever set up in her mind the iron table out in the garden on Arch Street where we lunched nearly every day the sun shone?"

Jackson Hole, Wyoming

"… finally decides to take Nellie and the children off to Vancouver Island while Oliver leads a party into Jackson Hole."

Boise, Idaho

"That’s why we wrote a while back to the Idaho Historical Society, to see if someone could search the Boise papers for us."

Walnut Creek, California

"Now, after all her woe, Ellen comes back and lets her haggard face be seen, she takes an apartment in Walnut Creek and renews acquaintance with the son she probably hasn’t written to in two years."

Jersey Shore, New Jersey

"… the couple with whom they slipped away for quiet weekends at their cottage on the Jersey shore, …"

Staten Island, New York

"Stanford White had recently built them a grand house on Staten Island."

Huntington Lake, California

"How unfortunate for her that he took a walk out from their cabin on Huntington Lake and never came back."

Sierra Nevada, California

"Posses, Boy Scouts, forest rangers, helicopters, combed the area for two weeks, until the first storm dumped two feet of snow on the Sierra and made them give up."

Idaho, United States

"He said, “His father’s the best man in Idaho, with the biggest ideas.”"

Arrow Rock, Missouri

"They could look down into the top of the slot where the river had cut through (a potential damsite, but not so good as the Arrow Rock site below) but their first sight of the river was where it boiled out, white as a ruffled shirt front, into their pool."

Bird Cage Walk, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

"We have taken a cottage out by the strait, in the James Bay district, on a lane called Bird Cage Walk. The weather is beautifully mild and soft after our sunstruck gulch."

James Bay District, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

"We have taken a cottage out by the strait, in the James Bay district, on a lane called Bird Cage Walk."

Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

"Victoria, May 14, 1889 Dearest Augusta– Wonder of wonders, the irrigation scheme is not dead after all! I have had a telegram from Oliver..."

Kellogg, Idaho, United States

"Uncertainties about Grandfather or about her treacherous feeling for Frank Sargent? Since Frank had gone up to Kellogg to the gold mines, I have to assume it was Grandfather whom she doubted."

Idaho, United States

"It will do him no harm to hear accents more cultivated than those of Idaho, where they speak of “airigation,” call a closet a “cubby,” and “wrench” the soap out of their wash, or “worsh.”"

Snake River Valley, Idaho, United States

"through the winter, when he was working out of a Boise hotel room, classifying irrigable lands in the Snake River Valley."

Wyoming, United States

"a story about romance that blossomed during two days when a transcontinental train was snowbound in Wyoming."

Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada

"She did for Vancouver Island the sort of illustrated travel sketch she had previously done for New Almaden, Santa Cruz, Mexico, and the canyon, but except for that impersonal geography her work did not reflect her life closely."

Mesa Ranch, Boise, Idaho, United States

"“Oliver Ward,” she said, “where are you taking us? Is this our land? Is that our place?” “Mesa Ranch,” Oliver said. “Model farm. Thought you might like to see it.”"

Colorado, United States

"he has brought Wiley from Colorado and put him in charge of digging the “Susan” Canal."

Mesa, Arizona

"And I’d just as soon let her present herself: her letters from the Mesa are among the longest and fullest she wrote during that long half century of correspondence."

Almaden, California, United States

"I used to write you from Almaden how strangely transformed the dust clouds were after the sun went down."

Orchard Hill, Dutchess County, New York, United States

"…almost as we used to lie on Orchard Hill and look across at the farms of Dutchess County."

Dutchess County, New York, United States

"…look across at the farms of Dutchess County."

Idaho, United States

"What choices we are offered in this life, if we live in Idaho."

New Hampshire, United States

"…travel all the way from Idaho to New Hampshire by yourself at that age, going toward something new and strange."

Wyoming, United States

"I can’t bear to think of him, by now off in Wyoming somewhere, huddled in the seat."

Concord, New Hampshire, United States

"Before going to Washington, Oliver found time to run up to Concord."

Washington, D.C., United States

"Before going to Washington, Oliver found time to run up to Concord."

Santa Cruz, California

"she had previously done for New Almaden, Santa Cruz, Mexico, and the canyon."

Denver, Colorado

"But he has arranged a short leave while he goes back to Denver to arrange construction contracts, and he has brought Wiley from Colorado and put him in charge of digging the “Susan” Canal, the first element of what will eventually be a network of ditches."

New Almaden, California

"she had previously done for New Almaden, Santa Cruz, Mexico, and the canyon."

Leadville, Colorado

"Her critical eye found the streets of Boise as swarming as the streets of Leadville, and not half so picturesque."

Boise, Idaho

"Boise itself does not appeal to me, especially with Oliver much away."

Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada

"… finally decides to take Nellie and the children off to Vancouver Island while Oliver leads a party into Jackson Hole."

St. Paul's, Concord, New Hampshire, United States

"He knows hardly more people in Boise than he will at St. Paul’s, actually."

Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico

"…one of those grand Mexican estancias at which we stayed when we rode back from Morelia."

Pisgah, Idaho, United States

"I grew almost hysterical, sitting my horse there on Pisgah’s top and being shown the Promised Land, which consisted of a sweep of sage and our barren house and the dots of three distant settlers’ shacks, with off to our right the desolation that Hi Mallett has created with his sulky plow."

Idaho, United States

"Oh, you must come to Idaho! It is the only place I know where your servants’ problems and your guests’ problems turn out to be the same."

Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

"I had written Oliver from Victoria, asking him to start the formalities."

St. Paul, Minnesota, United States

"We may or may not have money to send Ollie back to St. Paul’s."

Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico

"past the heavy pillars and the balustrade on which sat the old Guadalajara olla with its inscription half visible–asita–"

Boise, Idaho

"“There are no flags flying now,” he said. “Plenty in Boise. Hip hip hurrah. Statehood.”"

Leadville, Colorado

"… and she thought of the day she had entered Leadville, the day the man Oates who had jumped Oliver’s lot there had ended his life at the end of a rope in front of the jail."

Idaho, United States

"For the last few days I have been studying the Xeroxed newspaper stories that finally arrived from the Idaho Historical Society, and though they do straighten out for me some facts that I have never until now understood, they also raise some questions that are disturbing."

Berkeley, California

"…for reasons best known to herself, she chose to cut away from the Berkeley scene and rusticate herself here."

North San Juan, California

"We have leased twenty acres of land from the Massachusetts Mining Corporation in North San Juan, California, four miles north of Nevada City on Route 49."

Route 49, Nevada City, California

"…four miles north of Nevada City on Route 49."

Box 716, Nevada City, California

"Address: Box 716, Nevada City, California"

Chicago, Illinois

"From July 2 until the end of September 1890 there is only one brief note mailed between trains in the Chicago station."

New Hampshire, United States

"…it says that Mrs. Oliver Ward, accompanied by her son Oliver junior and her daughter Elizabeth, left on that day to visit relatives at the East, and to put young Oliver in school in New Hampshire."

Boise, Idaho

"Since they left Boise on July 22, and would have taken the best part of a week crossing the continent—the note later observes: 'Boise was a town that met the through trains."

Concord, New Hampshire, United States

"…before taking him on to Concord and unloading him on Dr. Rhinelander as she might have sped an unwelcome visitor."

Korea, East Asia

"…he stayed in Korea until the Russo-Japanese War drove him out."

Idaho, United States

"Five days of it – a day of Idaho, …"

Wyoming, United States

"…a night of Wyoming, a day of Wyoming and Nebraska, …"

Nebraska, United States

"…a day of Wyoming and Nebraska, a night of Nebraska, …"

Omaha, Nebraska, United States

"…a whole morning of sitting at the platform in Omaha."

Iowa, United States

"An afternoon of Iowa, …"

Illinois, United States

"An afternoon of Illinois and Indiana before they burrowed under the dense night heat."

Indiana, United States

"An afternoon of Illinois and Indiana before they burrowed under the dense night heat."

Merced, California, United States

"Oliver’s draft which came today was mailed at Merced, California, whereas the others have come from Salt Lake City."

Mazatlán, Sinaloa, Mexico

"A money order from Oliver yesterday, this one from Mazatlán, Mexico, and today a letter from Bessie which explains it."

Zodiac Cottage, Grass Valley, California, United States

"I was helping my grandfather in the rose garden here at Zodiac Cottage."

London, England

"…in company with the gentlemen from the London syndicate."

Seattle, Washington

"…he found a job in Korea–and sailed from Seattle without a visit home."

Mexico City, Mexico

"“Years ago, when we left you in Leadville and went to Mexico, I fell in love with Mexican civilization, and the grace of their housekeeping, and the romantic medieval way they lived…”"

Nevada, United States

"Ed saw him over in Nevada City last week, purple pants and all."

Salt Lake City, Utah

"…wherever the others have come from – Salt Lake City."

MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts

"…after he started at MIT he took summer jobs."

Poughkeepsie, New York

"…by the time they reached Poughkeepsie she had had nearly three weeks to bring herself to accept total calamity."

Boise Canyon, Idaho

"…Frank Sargent … was found dead in his bed at the London and Idaho’s engineering camp in Boise Canyon."

Milton, Massachusetts

"Without you, he would have had to go to Milton, sadly reduced now that father and mother are gone and the old house sold."

Milton, Massachusetts

"…she could have paused in Milton only two or three days before taking him on to Concord."

Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico

"“I wouldn’t be surprised if the perfumed darkness of her barren piazza flooded her with memories of the equally perfumed darkness of Morelia, and if the dangerous impossible possibility Frank suggested brought back the solemnity of bells…”"

Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

"“... but there were three whole years when you didn’t see me at all, and then more than a year when I was in Victoria.”"

St. Paul's, Concord, New Hampshire, United States

"From later letters, I know that Grandmother delivered my father to St. Paul’s sometime around the first of August, a good month before school opened."

Massachusetts, United States

"I remember this special afternoon because of my Aunt Betsy, by then married and living in Massachusetts, who was in Grass Valley for a month’s visit."

Mesa, Arizona

"“You remember the rose garden on the Mesa.” … “A reminder,” Grandmother said in that miserable letter while she waited for spring in the first year of her widowhood on the Mesa."

Idaho, United States

"He crossed some sort of moss rose with the old Harison yellow climber they used to have in Idaho, and got this climber with red blooms tipped with yellow."

Carpinteria, California, United States

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Boise Canyon, Idaho

"“I’d have to guess she was never really happy after, say, her thirty-seventh year, the last year when she lived an idyll in Boise Canyon.”"

Boise, Idaho

"“She lived in Boise alone for nearly two years, while he was working in Mexico.”"

Grass Valley, California

"“Down again where the grade stiffened past Grass Valley, and then down, down, down, three different tones, and finally there it was at the dutiful bass growl that would take it all the way over the range, and even that receding, losing itself among the pines.”"

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"In the novel that marked his literary debut, Stegner depicts the dramatic, moving story of an Iowa farm wife whose spirit is tested by a series of events as cruel and inevitable as the endless prairie winters."

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London, England

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Mexico City, Mexico

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Grass Valley, California

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Washington, D.C., United States

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New York, New York

"the three thousand miles that had seemed no more than the distance from Milton to New York revealed themselves as a continent."

New York, New York

"While Susan studied in New York and shuttled back and forth across the continent, Bessie looked after the home place."

New York, New York

"…the creamy one with the five petals is some kind of cinquefoil, I knew something very like it back home in New York."

New York, New York

"… that when we return next month you and Thomas will be back in New York."

New York, New York

"General Tompkins has already lined up backing from Pope and Cole. We’re talking to them in New York tomorrow."

New York, New York

"I have watched with admiration how you two first created a place for yourselves in New York and then molded and shaped it within a world of art and ideas."

New York, New York

"Oliver, having just returned from New York, has had to turn around and start back, to confer with General Tompkins and two members of the London syndicate."

New York, New York

"He saw his father once or twice a year in New York."

New York, New York

"the Clarendon Hotel heard the accents of Boston, New York, and London."

Washington, D.C., United States

"if Mr. Ward decided to accept the position, he should plan to come to Washington for a week in January, and be prepared to take the field as early in the spring as the weather would allow."

San Francisco, California

"This is the way I feel when Oliver is in S.F. When he comes down, it is like high tide along the shore–all the wet muddy places sparkle with life and motion."

San Francisco, California

"“Didn’t they put up a lot of refugees from the San Francisco fire and earthquake up here? I’ve just glanced through them, I thought I saw something about that.”"

Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts

"Leaving Harvard, where he had been teaching writing as a Briggs-Copeland Fellow, he eventually moved on in his academic career."

London, England

"An absent-minded, enthusiastic, childlike man, he walked one morning, reading his London Times, and stepped in front of a train."

Mexico City, Mexico

"By then would they all be wearing Mexican clothes and taking all this Mexican courtliness for granted, acting like Don Gustavo, who had been in Mexico twenty years and wished it to appear that he had been there two hundred?"

Mexico City, Mexico

"she had previously done for New Almaden, Santa Cruz, Mexico, and the canyon."

Mexico City, Mexico

"“Would you consider Mexico?”"

Mexico City, Mexico

"I came home from school and told her I had to write a report on Mexico–how Mexicans live, or something about Mexican heroes, or some incident from Cortez and Montezuma."

Mexico City, Mexico

"she goes to Mexico for two months"

Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico

"At the bottom of the box was something heavy which, unwrapped, turned out to be a water jar with something in Spanish written across it. “Guadalajara,” Oliver said. “Now you’re supposed to feel that the place is yours.”"

Nevada, United States

"My little general practitioner in Nevada City now wonders if I should risk staying through the winter without a proper nurse."

Staten Island, New York

"And then Augusta dawned on my nineteenth year like a rose‐pink winter sunrise … sweet and cold from her walk up from the ferry: Staten Island was her home."

Grass Valley, California

"“I’ve got fifteen years of Grass Valley letters still to put in order, and there isn’t a lot of time,” Shelly said. “Isn’t a lot of time before what?” I said."

Santa Cruz, California

"That much time in New Almaden and Santa Cruz produced a bale of correspondence."

South Park, San Francisco, California

"…the Denver, South Park & Pacific narrow gauge that would take them to Fairplay"

South Park, San Francisco, California

"Looking back, Susan saw South Park filled nearly to the brim with cloud, only the saw-toothed peaks rising above it."

Omaha, Nebraska, United States

"The Platte Valley slid by for a whole day before they even got to Omaha. Omaha, which less than two years before had struck her as the absolute dropping‐off place, the western edge of nowhere."

New Almaden, California

"But she would work into her New Almaden sketch some of the terror of that black labyrinth, and she might even ask outright what sort of life it was, what sort of promise the New World gave, when a miner who emerged from a deep hole in Cornwall could do no better than dive down another in California, and when his children were carrying water to the mine at ten and pushing an ore car at fifteen."

New Almaden, California

"I doubt that she looked more angel than woman, as the smitten boy at New Almaden had thought."

Leadville, Colorado

"Few experts passed through Leadville: they had made their investigations, written their reports, taken their fees, and gone. … ‘I know. It’s Leadville. It’s what I chose.’"

Cypress Hills, Saskatchewan, Canada

"But neither his education in Canada, which tried to make a European of him, nor his own reading in geography or history had any relevance to the place where he lived: 'Living in the Cypress Hills, I did not even know I lived there, and hadn’t the faintest notion of who had lived there before me."

Boise, Idaho

"…'Why not let him go to the high school in Boise?' Of course it would not have done. He knows hardly more people in Boise than he will at St. Paul’s, actually."

Boise, Idaho

"Angle of Repose 1 Boise City, June 16, 1882 Darling Augusta– I am sitting, or lying, in our old hammock–the same old hammock that hung on the piazza in New Almaden..."