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The route to this prompt is circuitous. This is a view from our apartment when we first moved to Salt Lake City in 2008, while I was reading Wallace Stegner's The Gathering of Zion about the founding of the LDS church and the Latter-day Saints' journey(s) to what would become Utah. I was not yet in my "photographing reads" era, but I associate this view with the book and with the term "saints."

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John is a black man who trains horses on his ranch outside of a small town in Wyoming. When a gay man is murdered in the town the event vibrates through out his life in unexpected ways including bringing the son of his college roommate to stay. Percival Everett is in a league of his own and my only complaint about this book is that it is so short. The ending was so abrupt, I wanted another 150 pages.

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A little under-the-weather this weekend with an allergy/asthma flare-up, I‘ve spent most of the day sleeping. Childhood Saturdays with my dad were my inspiration for today‘s haiku. He helped make me a reader & movie buff, even if I don‘t love westerns the way he did. Miss him, always. Happy Father‘s Day💚

Pipe smoke, faded books,
cowboys ride through black and white,
Dad beside me still

“Wounded” is a compelling read. It‘s a quick one too. There‘s a lot happening in 207 pages.

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Out Where the West Begins-Arthur Chapman, 1917

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Read the entire poem here:
https://poets.org/poem/ode-west-wind

A short children's book about the life and career of Bass Reeves, a man born into slavery who served a long time as a deputy marshal hunting down criminals in Indian Territory. It has all the adventurous hallmarks of Western fiction with an emphasis on Bass Reeves upstanding moral character.

I find myself interested in learning more about him.

It‘s late, but not too late for a discussion. We just read multiple variants of defining the “West” from the “East.” Many are shaped by the times themselves and can seem abnormally outdated. In fact, the whole idea of West and East seems outdated, but we keep defining it. It‘s currently 2025. How do you define West and East? Where do you draw that line when you hear these terms? #europe #normandavies #west #east #history #worldhistory #politics

15/100 I guess I've watched too many westerns, because I found this kind of dry. The Dalton Gang was one of the last big outlaw gangs before the beginning of the 20th century, and their exploits are well know and often overly fictionalized. I don't know why, but I found the lawmen more interesting than the outlaws. 3 ⭐⭐⭐
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