Research Catalog

Title

Climbing the divide / Walt McDonald.

Author

McDonald, Walter.

Publication

Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, c2003.

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Details

Description

xiv, 87 p.; 24 cm.

Contents

• When I Glance Up -- With My Son's Bow at Dusk -- Hosanna in the Family -- Driving at Night across Texas -- Grandmother's Thousand Cats -- Breathless for Twenty Seconds -- Magical Hammocks at Bedtime -- Cascading down McDonald Creek -- This Could Be Eden -- A Fed Bear Is a Dead Bear -- Stranded in Snowpacked Mountains -- Climbing the Divide in Montana -- Praise -- Boys on Winter Palominos -- The Summer Uncle Carl's Herd Was Sold -- Town Girls When I Was Nine -- The Year Biology Made Sense -- Doctors, Lawyers, Undertakers -- Island Hopping with MacArthur -- Blizzards When I Was Ten -- The Blocks Grandfather Carved -- What God Felt Like When I Was Twelve -- Words I Looked Up in World War Two -- Uncle Bob and the Art of Taxidermy -- Packing Parachutes in Flight School -- Before Flying Off to War -- Taking the Keys Away -- The War in Bosnia, the Beach at Kitty Hawk -- The Gulls of Kitty Hawk -- Grandchildren in the Maritime Museum --
• That Night and Others Like It -- Months of Butterrum -- Giving Time to the Dirt in Rows -- Uncle Earl's Last Ride in Dallas -- Fencing the Hardpan -- On the Porch Swing at Dawn -- A Clown Fired from a Cannon -- After Fires in Montana -- Downhill to Granddaddy's Barn -- The Rockies, Tooth and Claw -- A Brief Familiar Story of Winter -- My Wife's First Day of Class -- Angelica's Banjo and Karate -- Some Days Nothing Can Save Us -- Black as the Plains Out There -- The Winter of Desert Storm -- October Compost -- A Little World Made Cunningly -- After the Mad Songs of Saigon -- Finding My Father's Hands in Midlife -- The Women under Rubens' Thumb -- After His Apache Crashed -- Fog on the Outer Banks -- Lay Down the Battle-Ax, the Halyard -- Squall Line at Sixty-Five -- Old Men Are Dreamers -- My Father Light as a Boy -- Stoking the Logs -- Stumbling to the Deck at Dawn -- Bless Weeds That Bloom in Fall -- Dazzling Montana Dawns --
• That Clatter in the Attic -- Clouds Whip By in the Valley -- Hiking Grizzly Country with Bells -- The Dark, Hollow Halo of Space -- Jogging at Sixty-Five.

ISBN

• 0268022801 (alk. paper)
• 026802281X (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2002156583

OCLC

ocm51306917

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries