The valley we lived in could easily be the setting for a fantasy novel or a prairie western novel. It could be anything.
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I'm living out a childhood fantasy. Our house is in a historic district of a small town that I used to read about in storybooks.
As a child, I spent a lot of time wandering around the prairies and in the hills, and there was a sense that it was such a wide-open space, and there was kind of a feeling of potential. I could imagine anything happening there.
The region west of the Mississippi continued in the popular mind to be a strange land for which the reports of explorers and travellers did the work of fiction, and Cooper's Prairie had few followers.
I go for drives in the Flint Hills, which is the setting for 'The Virgin of Small Plains'.
Seven of my novels take place in the Southwest, in the Four Corners area which has been my home since 1973. I know these mountains, rivers, mesas and canyons well, so it's been natural for me to draw on my own personal experiences here.
Your landscape in a western is one of the most important characters the film has. The best westerns are about man against his own landscape.
If I could have gone on describing to you the beauties of this region, who knows but I might have made a fine addition to the literature of our age?
I wrote my senior essay on the Santa Fe Writer's Colony and my dissertation on sacred landscapes - the Grand Canyon, the Dakota Badlands. As a setting, I love the West. I just love that western landscape.
Fantasy novels, I don't really gravitate to that part of the bookstore.
With multiplayer, permanent death, and an ever-changing world to explore and conquer, 'A Valley Without Wind' might be the place you're looking for if you need to escape the same dreary titles.
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