In 1987, John Rember returned home to Sawtooth Valley, where he had
been brought up. He returned out of a homing instinct: the same
forty acres that had sustained his family's horses had sustained a
vision of a place where he belonged in the world, a life where he
could get up in the morning, step out the door, and catch dinner
from the Salmon River. But to his surprise, he found that what was
once familiar was now unfamiliar. Everything might have looked the
same to the horses that spring, but to Rember this was no longer
home.
In Traplines, Rember recounts his experiences of growing up in a
time when the fish were wild in the rivers, horses were brought
into the valley each spring from their winter pasture, and electric
light still seemed magical. Today those same experiences no longer
seem to possess the authenticity they once did. In his journey
home, Rember discovers how the West, both as a place in which to
live and as a terrain of the imagination, has been transformed. And
he wonders whether his recollections of what once was prevent him
from understanding his past and appreciating what he found when he
returned home. In Traplines, Rember excavates the hidden desires
that color memory and shows us how, once revealed, they can allow
us to understand anew the stories we tell ourselves.
"From the Hardcover edition.
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