First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Black cloth-covered boards with title stamped in gold on cover and spine; with photographically illustrated dust jacket. Photographs and text by Marc Gaede. Edited by Marnie Walker Gaede. Includes notes on the images and a list of plates. Unpaginated (112 pp.), with 98 duotone plates. 10-1/4 x 8-7/8 inches.

Bordertowns: Photographs by Marc Gaede

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Gaede, Marnie Walker

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Images from the Great West

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This powerful and disturbing book demonstrates that one man can change the system. Robert Sundance (1927-93), a Lakota from the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in South Dakota, was introduced to alcohol at an early age. After spending nearly twenty-five years on skid rows across the American West, Sundance decided to reform the system that incarcerated homeless street alcoholics. His efforts led to radical reform of the treatment of public inebriates and helped create the process of alcoholic rehabilitation. 
"A kind of Lower Depths set on the Northern Plains."—Thomas McGuane 
"Describes his harrowing odyssey through bars, whorehouses, alleys and jails all over the West. . . . Sundance pulls no punches. He tells of the wino's life—its casual violence, its ceaseless wandering, the terrors of delirium tremens—in blunt, convincing terms. . . . No saint, he showed that even an ordinary person can enlist his flaws in the service of an astonishing empowerment."—Los Angeles Times

Sundance the Robert Sundance Story

Gaede, Marc

Sundance, Robert

This powerful and disturbing book demonstrates that one man can change the system. Robert Sundance (1927-93), a Lakota from the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in South Dakota, was introduced to alcohol at an early age. After spending nearly twenty-five years on skid rows across the American West, Sundance decided to reform the system that incarcerated homeless street alcoholics. His efforts led to radical reform of the treatment of public inebriates and helped create the process of alcoholic rehabilitation.  "A kind of Lower Depths set on the Northern Plains."—Thomas McGuane  "Describes his harrowing odyssey through bars, whorehouses, alleys and jails all over the West. . . . Sundance pulls no punches. He tells of the wino's life—its casual violence, its ceaseless wandering, the terrors of delirium tremens—in blunt, convincing terms. . . . No saint, he showed that even an ordinary person can enlist his flaws in the service of an astonishing empowerment."—Los Angeles Times

Sundance, the Robert Sundance Story

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Bordertowns: Photographs by Marc Gaede

Images from the Great West

Sundance the Robert Sundance Story

Sundance, the Robert Sundance Story