To the point: truths only essays can tell.

Harper's Magazine | March 1, 1993| | Copyright

In my late thirties I hit my stride as a writer (as many do), and caught my second wind. Earlier, I had published three novels, but I was stalled on the fourth and in the meantime had discovered essay writing through the vehicle of a long travel journal, Notes From the Century Before, which I had published in 1969, about the old men of Telegraph Creek, a frontier hamlet on the Stikine River eight hundred miles north of Vancouver, British Columbia.

Wilds had intrigued me since my teens, when I had ridden horseback in the Wind River Range in Wyoming, then fought ...

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