 | Richard M. Dorson - 1986 - 614 էջ
...picture of a distinctive expressive culture in the region. Thus, when Erna Fergusson contends that "the arid Southwest has always been too strong, too indomitable for most people" — a land "infinitely productive of the imponderables" and a "wilderness where a man may get back... | |
 | Kenneth Baxter Ragsdale - 1976 - 368 էջ
...as usual. The historian Erna Fergusson assesses the Big Bend's impact on the occupants as follows: "Those who can stand it have had to learn that man does not modify this country; it transforms him deeply."3 Virginia Madison, another regional historian, remarks: "The vast ranch empires in the Big... | |
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The arid Southwest has always been too strong, too indomitable for most people. Those who can stand it have had to learn that man does not modify this country; it transforms him, deeply. 