Sort of a
"prequel" to The Brave Cowboy,
this is about the cowboy as a child, and mostly about his
grandfather's fight to keep his home. This was made into a TV movie, which I have never seen.
This gripping novel is the story of one man's defiance of the United States government. The hero, John Vogelin, is an old rancher whose property adjoins the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. When the U.S. Air Force tries to take the possession of the ranch in order to extend the missile range, the old man refuses to give up his property. Aided only by his twelve-year-old grandson, Vogelin shows what one determined individual can do in the face of overwhelming legal and military power.
"Vogelin stands for something we too easily forget; an American dream, the heritage of forefathers, the right of every individual to rise up and proclaim 'I exist!' -- Denver Post
"If Mr. Abbey oversimplifies the twentieth century a bit by making White Sands a locus of pure evil, he states his case with a lyricism that is highly persuasive." -- New York Times
"One of the best of the serious Westerns." -- Western Review
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Abbey, Edward, 1927- Fire on the mountain. New York, Dial Press, 1962. 211 p. 21 cm. LC CALL NUMBER: PZ4.A124 Fi LCCN: 62-18846 L
Abbey, Edward, 1927- Fire on the mountain / Edward Abbey ; introd. by Gerald Haslam. Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 1978, c1962. xviii, 211 p. ; 20 cm. LC CALL NUMBER: PZ4.A124 Fi 1978 *NOT IN LC COLLECTION* (ALTERNATE CLASS PS3551.B2) SERIES TITLES (Indexed under SERI option): A Zia book DEWEY DEC: 813/.5/4 NOTES: Reprint of the ed. published by Dial Press, New York; with new introd. ISBN: 0826304575 : $3.95 LCCN: 77-89434