Charles Bowden

Charles Bowden Charles Clyde Bowden (July 20, 1945 – August 30, 2014) was an American nonfiction author, investigative journalist, and essayist. He received the 1996 Lannan Literary Awards Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction. Quotes The cave is near Clifton, Arizona Clifton and Morenci, Arizona Morenci, two eastern Arizona mining towns at the foot of a wilderness country stretching northward toward Blue River (Arizona) Blue River. In the early 1960s, millions of bats lived in the colony. E. Lendell Cockrum, a University of Arizona professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, tried to tally them once. He made sample counts, multiplied and came out with 50,000,000 bats. Trying to be conservative, he published a figure of 25,000,000.The big colony once devoured 80,000 pounds of Arizona insects a night. By the late 1960s, there were 25,000 bats and they ate about ninety-eight pounds of insects a night. The devastation of the bat colony came quickly and that fact is what has brought us to the cave. Blue Desert Tom Keneally Centre Research Collection University of Arizona Press 1988 9780816510818 https://books.google.com/books?id=JXfNCZl49RwC&pg=PA12 12–13 (175 pages; 1st published in 1986) Ahead, the Mount Lemmon high point of the range, Mt. Lemmon, hides in a layer of white. The ridge provided the first gateway to the high country and hosted the typical lacerations favored by nineteenth-century mountaineers—Mining mines.In March 1881, J. G. Lemmon John Gill Lemmon and his bride, Sara Plummer Lemmon, got off the train in Tucson. Pioneer botanists from California, they looked up at the 9000-foot Santa Catalina Mountains Catalinas and wanted to go there and name the plants. For weeks they puzzled out the canyon on the front range of the mountains' south side and could find no easy route to the high country. People in town told them to look up Emerson Oliver Stratton, a rancher and mine owner living on the slopes of the mountain's north side. Frog Mountain Blues University of Arizona Press 1994 9780816515011 https://books.google.com/books?id=mhJYIPdFYAAC &pg=PA32 32 (175 pages; photographs by Jack W. Diking; 1st edition 1987; Emerson Oliver Stratton's daughter Edith Stratton Kitt was posthumously inducted into the Arizona Women's Hall of Fame.) The violence is not just on the border in Mexico, it is spreading. The migration north comes from all over Mexico. Labor protests in China are growing. The World economy global economy is capital short. The E.U. is slapping band-aids on the euro. There is nothing on the horizon that promises social peace, and many things that suggest unrest. Ciudad Juárez Juárez for decades has been a laboratory for free-trade ideas. The murder of five thousand three hundred people in twenty-seven months is part of the lab report. Since this threatens U.S. policy and Chamber of Commerce theology, it must be ignored. That is why regardless of what happens in Mexico it is spoken of as a drug war in the U.S. as quoted by Meredith Blake] in: The Exchange: Charles Bowden on Juárez, "Murder City" May 18, 2010 The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-exchange-charles-bowden-on-jurez-murder-city External links Ed Vulliamy, Charles Bowden obituary. Journalist and author who wrote about the blighted borderlands between the US and Mexico, cursed with drug wars and poverty 7 September 2014 The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/sep/07/charles-bowden Category:1945 births Category:2014 deaths Category:Environmentalists from the United States Category:Journalists from the United States Category:Non-fiction authors from the United States Category:University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni Category:Investigative journalists Category:Essayists from the United States Category:Political authors from the United States Category:People from Illinois