B. J. Hollars

Go West, Young Man (eBook, ePUB)

A Father and Son Rediscover America on the Oregon Trail

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

2022 Silver Midwest Book Award Winner At the sound of the bell on the last day of kindergarten, B.J. Hollars and his six-year-old son, Henry, hop in the car to strike out on a 2,500-mile road trip retracing the Oregon Trail. Their mission: to rediscover America, and Americans, along the way. Throughout their two-week adventure, they endure the usual setbacks (car trouble, inclement weather, and father-son fatigue), but their most compelling drama involves people, privilege, and their attempt to find common ground in an all-too-fractured country. Writing in the footsteps of John Steinbeck's Travels with Charley, Hollars picks up the trail with his son more than half a century later. Together they sidle up to a stool at every truck stop, camp by every creek, and roam the West. They encounter not only the beauty and heartbreak of America, but also the beauty and heartbreak of a father and son eager to make the most of their time together. From Chimney Rock to Independence Rock to the rocky coast of Oregon, they learn and relearn the devastating truth of America's exploitative past, as well as their role within it.Go West, Young Man recounts the author's effort to teach his son the difficult realities of our nation's founding while also reaffirming his faith in America today.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bison Books
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781496228420
• Artikelnr.: 70885540

Autorenporträt

B.J. Hollars is professor of English at the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire. He is the author of numerous books, including Flock Together: A Love Affair with Extinct Birds (Nebraska, 2017), Go West, Young Man: A Father and Son Rediscover America on the Oregon Trail  (Nebraska, 2021),  Midwestern Strange: Hunting Monsters, Martians, and the Weird in Flyover Country (Nebraska, 2019), Dispatches from the Drownings: Reporting the Fiction of Nonfiction (New Mexico, 2014), This Is Only a Test, From the Mouths of Dogs: What Our Pets Teach Us about Life, Death, and Being Human (Nebraska, 2015), and Thirteen Loops: Race, Violence, and the Last Lynching in America. Hollars is also the founder and executive director of the Chippewa Valley Writers Guild. 

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Author’s Note
Prologue
1. The Jumping-Off Point
2. Stubborn as Mules
3. Weathering the Storm
4. Faith and Consequences
5. Proceed with Caution
6. Recalculating the Route
7. The Ghosts of Emigrants Past
8. Small Kindnesses
9. The House Always Wins
10. Redrawing the Boundaries
11. The Gift
12. Reflecting Light
Notes
Bibliography