- Paperback: 256 pages
- Publisher: Routledge; New Ed edition (28 Mar 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 041592765X
- ISBN-13: 978-0415927659
- Product Dimensions: 21.3 x 15.2 x 2 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,465,923 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Wallace Stegner, who grew up near the medicine line, caught the landscapes's harsh, wild beauty, and in this fine book LaDow gives it the history it deserves."
-"The New Yorker
"In this absorbing history of a place, the borderland between Saskatchewan and Montana, Beth LaDow blends narrative and biography with scholarly research and remarkable personal insight. Her prose is as spare and subtly graceful as the prairie she writes about."
-"Seattle Times
"An involving contribution to western history."
-"Booklist
"It's a switch to see a Yank soothing an identity crisis by scratching our myths. Yet that's what Beth LaDow is up to in this fine history of medicine line country...General readers and experts will profit from this book."
-"The Globe and Mail
"This is a serious bok but that not mean that Ms LaDow cannot introduce sparks of humour when a theme becomes too serious, or tedious. Good stories abound.."
-"Geomatica, Vol. 55, No.2, 2001
-"The New Yorker
"In this absorbing history of a place, the borderland between Saskatchewan and Montana, Beth LaDow blends narrative and biography with scholarly research and remarkable personal insight. Her prose is as spare and subtly graceful as the prairie she writes about."
-"Seattle Times
"An involving contribution to western history."
-"Booklist
"It's a switch to see a Yank soothing an identity crisis by scratching our myths. Yet that's what Beth LaDow is up to in this fine history of medicine line country...General readers and experts will profit from this book."
-"The Globe and Mail
"This is a serious bok but that not mean that Ms LaDow cannot introduce sparks of humour when a theme becomes too serious, or tedious. Good stories abound.."
-"Geomatica, Vol. 55, No.2, 2001
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The Medicine Line: Life and Death on the North American Borderland, is a complex and oftentimes dramatic mix of narrative storytelling and history in which ironies are explored, patterns of deed and response are uncovered, examined and evaluated...Beth Ladow is a compelling stylist who writes with warmth and insight, and she has given us a smart book, which will help us understand one another, and a good read. We need more books like this one. -- William Kittredge, Author of THE NATURE OF GENOROSITY(knopf,2000)
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Imaginatively Written Western History
17 Dec 2000
Format:Hardcover
This is a lyrical, vividly written narrative history in a style which will appeal to a general audience. The author has closely studied an area along the Montana-Saskathewan border beginning with Sitting Bull's surrender to the U.S. Cavalry in 1881 and ending with the post World War I influenza pandemic. Although largely empty now, in the early 20th Century this vast dry-land prairie was home to many thousands of small-scale homesteaders struggling to wrest a living from an unforgiving landscape. The author includes interviews and correspondence with the late author Wallace Stegner, whose family attempted to make a living on both sides of this borderland. The numerous photos and illustrations are great, and along with the text give the reader an evocative sense of the hard life on the high western plains.
0 of 4 people found the following review helpful
interesting if a bit academic
21 April 2001
Format:Hardcover
interesting account if a bit dry and academic. led me to Wallace Stegner's "Wolf Willow" which is richer with anecdotes and better writing. also led me to "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee" which is a must-read for any Jefferson-loving American. all three titles made me interested in the lives of the Indians before 1800: was their life as brutal when the enemy was other tribes rather than white goldseekers, homesteaders et al? or were they at peace with the earth and each other?
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