Bibliograph

American ghost, a family's haunted past in the desert southwest, Hannah Nordhaus

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American ghost, a family's haunted past in the desert southwest, Hannah Nordhaus

Language

eng

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

American ghost

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

904141591

Responsibility statement

Hannah Nordhaus

Sub title

a family's haunted past in the desert southwest

Summary

In this spellbinding exploration of myth, family history, and the American West, the award-winning journalist and author of The Beekeeper's LamentAmerican GhostAmerican Ghost is a touching journey of roots and memory, a story of pioneer women and immigrants, villains and visionaries, frontier fortitude and mental illness, imagination and lore. As she follows the strands of Julia's life, Nordhaus discovers a larger tale of how a true-life story becomes a ghost story--and how difficult it can be to separate history from myth

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