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This Haunted Land: Reckoning with Ghosts and the Stories That Shape America (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9798890920478)
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xWhy do humans need ghosts? And what do ghosts have to teach us?
"Gaines Quammen deftly guides us through the house of horrors that is America's colonial past."
--ANNETTE MCGIVNEY, Plastic Shaman In This Haunted Land, Betsy Gaines Quammen investigates some of America's most enduring ghost stories and uncovers how ghost stories can help us come to terms with our unsettled past. With curiosity, a bit of skepticism, and an open-hearted willingness to learn from the living and the dead, Gaines Quammen takes readers on a riveting, sometimes spooky journey into the haunted towns, lands, waters, and parts of history that we too often ignore. From a once-booming uranium mine community now entombed in Colorado's Mesa County, to America's oldest fort on the east coast of Florida, This Haunted Land interweaves memory, mourning, folklore, and social anxiety--and shows that politicized efforts to rewrite history can be defeated by listening to the spectres of the past.
Author: Betsy Gaines Quammen
ISBN-13: 9798890920478
Publisher: Torrey House Press
Language: English
Published: 09/01/2026
Pages: 220
Format: Hardcover
"Gaines Quammen deftly guides us through the house of horrors that is America's colonial past."
--ANNETTE MCGIVNEY, Plastic Shaman In This Haunted Land, Betsy Gaines Quammen investigates some of America's most enduring ghost stories and uncovers how ghost stories can help us come to terms with our unsettled past. With curiosity, a bit of skepticism, and an open-hearted willingness to learn from the living and the dead, Gaines Quammen takes readers on a riveting, sometimes spooky journey into the haunted towns, lands, waters, and parts of history that we too often ignore. From a once-booming uranium mine community now entombed in Colorado's Mesa County, to America's oldest fort on the east coast of Florida, This Haunted Land interweaves memory, mourning, folklore, and social anxiety--and shows that politicized efforts to rewrite history can be defeated by listening to the spectres of the past.
Author: Betsy Gaines Quammen
ISBN-13: 9798890920478
Publisher: Torrey House Press
Language: English
Published: 09/01/2026
Pages: 220
Format: Hardcover
By Betsy Gaines Quammen
xBetsy Gaines Quammen is the author of American Zion and True West, which won the 2024 Reading the West Book Award. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, New York Daily News, and History News Network. She holds a PhD from Montana State University and lives in Montana with her husband, writer David Quammen, and a bunch of scaly and furry rescued critters.
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