<p>Small farms once occupied the heights that John Elder calls home, but now only a few cellar holes and tumbled stone walls remain among the dense stands of maple, beech, and hemlocks on these Vermont hills. Reading the Mountains of Home is a journey into these verdant reaches where in the last century humans tried their hand and where bear and moose now find shelter. As John Elder is our guide, so Robert Frost is Elder's companion, his great poem "Directive" seeing us through a landscape in which nature and literature, loss and recovery, are inextricably joined.</p>

Reading the Mountains of Home

Literature & Fiction

Elder, John C.

History & Criticism

Harvard University Press

<p>Little Bird was her name. That is all she knew. Captured by the Apaches at the age of five. This is where her life and her soul started with the Apache. That life started with pain, suffering, blood, tears, fire, and death. Her life as Lizzie Bird started just as violently at about the age of twelve in the high Sierra Diablo Mountains in far West Texas in January of 1881. In both she lost a mother, in the first her birth mother. In the last her soul mother, the mother who still directed her. The mother who had hidden her, protecting and shielding her on that bone-cold morning of death flight and capture. The morning of her re-birth into the white world.</p>

Little Bird: The Place

United States

Independently published

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