Review of Hard Road West: History and Geology along the Gold Rush Trail by Keith Heyer Meldahl

Authors

Harmon D. Maher Jr., University of Nebraska at OmahaFollow

Document Type

Book Review

Publication Date

1-1-2009

Publication Title

Great Plains Research

Volume

19

Issue

1

First Page

129

Last Page

130

Abstract

The dust jacket of Hard Road West promises familiar pleasures to John McPhee lovers, and so I picked the book up with great anticipation. McPhee’s works have greatly heightened the interest of writers and readers in the genre of creative nonfiction, and while for me, Keith Meldahl’s work does not quite reach McPhee’s stratospheric heights, for the right audience it is definitely a very good read.

Comments

Published in Great Plains Research 130 Vol. 19 No. 1, 2009. © 2009 Center for Great Plains Studies.

Recommended Citation

Maher, Harmon D. Jr., "Review of Hard Road West: History and Geology along the Gold Rush Trail by Keith Heyer Meldahl" (2009). Geography and Geology Faculty Publications. 2.
https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/geoggeolfacpub/2