Owning It All was called a book of essays, Hole in the Sky was called a memoir, and Who Owns the West? was called a meditation. They are all evidence of trying to think about what I believe, and trying to leave some residue that might be useful to others. They are texts written over texts, as this is. Ideas live in the mind, and evolve through complexities like creatures. ...
Warner Valley, tucked against an enormous reach of Great Basin sagebrush and lava rock desert in southeastern Oregon and northern Nevada, is a hidden world. Landlocked waters flow from snowy mountains to the west but don't find a way out to the sea. ... Warner Valley is the main staging ground for my imagination.
—William Kittredge, 1999, in Taking Care: Thoughts on Storytelling and Belief Warner Valley (left: Crump Lake; far right: Greaser Rim) from Lynch's Rim, Spring 2015. (click to enlarge) Photo: Douglas Beauchamp
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