- Title Pages
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction Into the Wildness
- 1 Wildfire News
- 2 Conundrum and Continuum
- 3 No Word
- 4 The Edge of Anomaly
- 5 Order versus Wildness
- 6 Biomimicry
- 7 Notes on “Up at the Basin”
- 8 Listening to the Forest
- 9 The Working Wilderness
- 10 The Hummingbird and the Red Cap
- 11 Losing Wildness for the Sake of Wilderness
- 12 Inhabiting the Alaskan Wild
- 13 Wilderness in Four Parts, or Why We Cannot Mention My Great-Grandfather’s Name
- 14 Wild Black Margins
- 15 Healing the Urban Wild
- 16 Building the Civilized Wild
- 17 Cultivating the Wild on Chicago’s South Side
- 18 Toward an Urban Practice of the Wild
- 19 The Whiskered God of Filth
- 20 The Akiing Ethic
- 21 On the Wild Edge in Iceland
- 22 The Story Isn’t Over
- 23 Cultivating the Wild
- 24 Earth Island
- Epilogue Wild Partnership
- Permissions
- About the Contributors
- Index
Wilderness in Four Parts, or Why We Cannot Mention My Great-Grandfather’s Name
Wilderness in Four Parts, or Why We Cannot Mention My Great-Grandfather’s Name
- Chapter:
- (p.123) 13 Wilderness in Four Parts, or Why We Cannot Mention My Great-Grandfather’s Name
- Source:
- Wildness
- Author(s):
Aaron Abeyta
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
This chapter is a family and sheep ranching history set in the Cruces Basin and Toltec Wilderness Areas of northern New Mexico. Against the backdrop of a blizzard, a young boy and his father set out to save their family flock from what would be certain death. The chapter explores the bonds of family and the father/son relationship across four generations. Included in the chapter are four sections focused on working and ranching in the wilderness as well as a backstory of abandonment. The chapter also explores the search for redemption and the heredity of loss and survival therein. The chapter serves as a coming of age narrative while examining the ways that wilderness and ranching are integral parts of a larger southwestern story of perseverance, land use, and the intersection of cultures.
Keywords: wilderness, ranching, northern New Mexico, coming of age, Cruces Basin, sheep, Toltec Gorge
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- Title Pages
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction Into the Wildness
- 1 Wildfire News
- 2 Conundrum and Continuum
- 3 No Word
- 4 The Edge of Anomaly
- 5 Order versus Wildness
- 6 Biomimicry
- 7 Notes on “Up at the Basin”
- 8 Listening to the Forest
- 9 The Working Wilderness
- 10 The Hummingbird and the Red Cap
- 11 Losing Wildness for the Sake of Wilderness
- 12 Inhabiting the Alaskan Wild
- 13 Wilderness in Four Parts, or Why We Cannot Mention My Great-Grandfather’s Name
- 14 Wild Black Margins
- 15 Healing the Urban Wild
- 16 Building the Civilized Wild
- 17 Cultivating the Wild on Chicago’s South Side
- 18 Toward an Urban Practice of the Wild
- 19 The Whiskered God of Filth
- 20 The Akiing Ethic
- 21 On the Wild Edge in Iceland
- 22 The Story Isn’t Over
- 23 Cultivating the Wild
- 24 Earth Island
- Epilogue Wild Partnership
- Permissions
- About the Contributors
- Index
