The Joshua Tree
1st Edition
Published on 1. November 2012
256 pages
978-1-4088-3754-2 (ISBN)
Description
Drawing from the legendary heroic life of Bill Keys, this classic story of the Old and New West uniquely captures the romance and tragedy of the American West. Cowboy, prospector and miner, living with the Walapai Indians, 'desert rat', partner of Death Valley Scotty, rancher in the high Mohave desert, Keys knew Buffalo Bill, the Parker brothers, General Patton, and did a five-year stretch in San Quentin for his eighth range-war shooting.
Through the voices of Will Spear (based on Bill Keys) and Lily, a 1960s California girl, Cabot sees people in depth and time as souls alive in the wandering generations, the waves of migration, settlement, conquest, and loss, as characters caught in the larger cycles of nature. The voice that imparts the ground tone is the meditative voice of the Joshua Tree itself, singing out of the profound depths of nature, standing as witness to the living creatures of the desert.
Through the voices of Will Spear (based on Bill Keys) and Lily, a 1960s California girl, Cabot sees people in depth and time as souls alive in the wandering generations, the waves of migration, settlement, conquest, and loss, as characters caught in the larger cycles of nature. The voice that imparts the ground tone is the meditative voice of the Joshua Tree itself, singing out of the profound depths of nature, standing as witness to the living creatures of the desert.
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Content
- Intro
- Title page
- eCopyright
- Author biography
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Foreword
- The Joshua Tree
- I, Joshua tree
- I, old Will
- I, Lily
- Me, Will Spear: little Jerry Dan once - windmills on the Volga, bottles dancing bright on the Elbe
- Me, Lily
- touch your heaven, little Lily
- Rooted, the sky
- You, young Willy, cut loose
- Presences
- Innocences, Lily, in your heart
- Holding
- the ancient home, the earth
- Willy
- Spider Woman, give Earth's Treasure
- The earth holds this lightly, waiting
- Lily of the Valley, so slowly turning from you
- Desert voices
- Stem of grass: Willy's shaman rope
- Willy - the weaving threads - Lily
- Sad flowers, Lily
- the passion dance
- They'd roll no more
- Me, Willy, I'd roll on, more
- Gold in red rock, Willy, your Desert Lady
- Elements, Lily
- the slaying and the sowing
- Voices of the wilderness, speak to Lily
- Speak to all
- Your treasure, Will
- The Joshua flower from your Lily
- A sharp scythe and the sun on your neck, old Will
- Wild willow honey, Lily to Will
- She'll move on light in my valley
- Leev Mail Here Pleas
- I, Joshua tree
- earth to sky
- Author's Note
