Peter Skene Ogden was born in 1794. Ogden was an experienced trapper and mountain man who remained with the Hudson’s Bay Company, after its 1821 merger with the North West Fur Company. Shortly after that he was made leader of the Snake River Expeditions by John Mcloughlin. He also was instructed to continue the British policy of creating a “fur desert”. Ogden with a brigade of 131, pushed south from flathead house toward Utah in December 1824.
Resurrection at the River Saints At The River follows the tragic aftermath of a young girl’s death in Tamassee, South Carolina. Throughout the story Ron Rash hints at a deeper meaning by using visual representations and allusions to give each reader his/her own perspective. He sculpts the theme of loss, Christianity, letting go, and acquiring power through symbolism and references to the reader's emotions. Rash shows through his writing how underlying tones can be represented through a story, a wedding ring, nature, or religion. One underlying tone that Rash uses is the symbol of a wedding ring.
In his essay, “First Wilderness: America’s Wonderland and Indian Removal from Yellowstone National Park,” Mark David Spence argues that the creation of Yellowstone National Park is an early illustration of removing native peoples as a way to “preserve” nature. The idea of Yellowstone being a pristine and untouched wilderness, is challenged by Spence as he brings to light the presence of Indigenous peoples and communities who had occupied the land prior to the national park being established. He advocates for a better understanding of Yellowstone National Park’s history, encompassing the dispossession of the Indigenous peoples within the area. Spence explains how the wilderness preservation of Yellowstone ignores and dismisses any connection
In Lost Mountain, Reece’s use of logos, and his personal experience helps his ethos builds a strong argument. He becomes a credible author through being a life, eye witness of the whole process, as well as his superior skills in research and presentation of said research. Throughout the book, the use of his statistics, comparisons and eye witness observations all add to his credibility. His use of pathos build his use of logos and ethos help the reader trust and view him as a credible source, as well as connect emotionally to the potentially distant topic of mountain top removal.
This book begins as an attempt to tell the story of Dr. Paul Farmer, a “big shot Boston doctor, professor of both medicine and medical anthropology at Harvard Medical School, and an attending specialist on the Brigham’s senior staff” (Kidder, 2009, p. 10). This is a man with multiple prestigious titles under his belt, yet continues to spend the majority of his time and energy in Haiti. Farmer strongly believes that healthcare shouldn’t be a privilege, it is a right that all human beings should have and this belief has brought him to places all around the world. His life’s work is to bring those rights into poverty stricken countries such as Haiti, and Rwanda. Although he is a doctor, his interest isn’t focused specifically on just medicine.
The quote "Little as he knew though, he wanted Ralph and Berry to think he knew a lot. "-Page 512, from the story The Mountain Legend by Jordan Wheeler. I think it would be a call to attention because it's foreshadowing that Jason will climb the intimidating mountain. After all, he wants to impress Ralph and Barry. Another call to attention is that it is suspense because it makes the reader want to read more and think about whether will Jason climb the mountain, whether he'll survive, whether he'll listen to Ralph and Barry, and whether he'll be influenced.
Additionally, Krakauer describes the glacier as a “three dimensional phantasmal beauty” which emphasizes how attractive this glacier can be even though the crevasses caused problems with the ladder earlier. Krakauer gave us a better insight on the mountain by employing visual imagery as he incorporated descriptive details to describe the characteristics of the mountain such as: “meandered through a vertical maze of crystalline blue stalagmites”. Instead of just saying I passed blue stalagmites, Krakauer expanded his description to give us a better understanding of the stalagmites and our viewpoint on his description changes. Just saying “blue stalagmites” portrays how dull the situation is whereas “vertical maze of crystalline blue stalagmites” fully describes the scenario well as we can really imagine Krakauer admiring the scenery. Furthermore, Krakauer chose to structure his writing this way so that, he’s reminded of how beautiful the mountain can be even though it’s dangerous.
While re-imagining Columbus’ impressions of the newly discovered land, she describes it as: “A small lump of insignificance, green, green, green, and green again”. Kincaid continues to emphasize the alleged one-dimensionality of the landscape, commenting that even “painters” (whom she naively assumes to have the job of vivifying dull landscapes) would find it to be, at most, “a green that often verges on
He could imagine his deception of this town “nestled in a paper landscape,” (Collins 534). This image of the speaker shows the first sign of his delusional ideas of the people in his town. Collins create a connection between the speaker’s teacher teaching life and retired life in lines five and six of the poem. These connections are “ chalk dust flurrying down in winter, nights dark as a blackboard,” which compares images that the readers can picture.
I have never experienced wilderness directly every once in a while I will hike in the mountains for several hours but I for one do not know how to live off of the land that is beneath our feet. After reading Wallace Stegner’s letter multiple times I can agree with several points he has made in his letter. As humans we have taken advantage of mother earth and created her into something that she was not meant for. We not only have taken advantage of earth we have taken control of the animals that walk among her as well. I believe we are blind to a point of where all we see is money for the things we do to this earth and it should not be that way.
In his 1995 essay “The Trouble with Wilderness,” William Cronon declares that “the time has come to rethink wilderness” (69). From the practice of agriculture to masculine frontier fantasies, Cronon argues that Americans have historically defined wilderness as an “island,” separate from their polluted urban industrial homes (69). He traces the idea of wilderness throughout American history, asserting that the idea of untouched, pristine wilderness is a harmful fantasy. By idealizing wilderness from a distance, he argues that people justify the destruction of less sublime landscapes and aggravate environmental conflict.
(Adams, A., 1977. p. 8). This suggests that Adams images are sublime as his focus was more on the meaning of the landscape
The perception of wilderness can be problematic. One of the most prominent points that Cronon made in his evaluation is the ideology that wilderness is an illusion to escape reality. This perception can be ambiguous because it segregates humanity from nature, by establishing the idea that wilderness is separate from everyday life. Also, Cronon calls attention to the issue of dividing the land and calling it wilderness. The issue of this isolation is that it disintegrates humans and nature, rather than bringing them more in unity.
I believe that natural areas should be preserved and protected from urbanization and that many people (especially Americans) do not care whether they experience the place. They only care about if they get good photos. Abbey describes the landscape in a way that lets the reader imagine it, but his abundance of details about the plants and rocks could get boring because of how much he talked about them. It is impressive that he knew plant names, but it was difficult to read through those parts because it had such a lengthy description. Abbey’s writing is very good, and it shows a strong voice, tells his stories well, and presents his opinions in ways that show exactly what he thinks.
Prologue Once upon a time there was a small village at the bottom of a great Mountain . whoever went on top of this mountain never came back. All of the people that disappeared or children. No one had disappeared and hundreds of years so everyone in the village thought that it was a myth. There is a small girl named Cara off.
