Matthew Largent's My Side Of The Mountain

115-miles south of Moab is a land revered by generations of climbers, hikers, and adventurers. It’s a land known as the Bears Ears, a series of buttes that constitute jeep trails, sacred archeological sites, unique sandstone formations, and the cherished climbing walls of Indian Creek. Not only loved by outdoorsman, the Bears Ears is also an important area to the Navajo, Ute, and Pueblo Native American tribes. Excavations here have revealed rock art, pottery, and cliff dwellings, documenting over a millennium of human habitation. The Bears Ears are loved but unprotected, and they are at a pivotal crossroads.

He soon could pick up any book and understand what the book was saying. Malcolm X would read most of the hours in a day. He also mentions that he’d often forget he was imprisoned. “I never had been so truly free in my life.” “I knew right there in prison that reading had changed forever the course of my life.”

He may not have understood the words, but he realized the basic structure of a paragraph and how his family was a story with each person their own paragraph. He took advantage of every opportunity he had to read. He knew he was different from most kids on the reservation and didn’t let that deter him. Alexie was determined to be a better than the expected Indian child, “I refused to fail. I was smart. I was arrogant. I was lucky. I read books late into the night, until I could barely keep my eyes open”.(495)

from what he was reading. In high school, he would only read what was required of him. In

He watched the De Laceys and learned how to talk, read, and how to love. He read about the creation of Adam and compared himself to the story of the fallen angel. This education may not be the deepest or most rational but it does connect deep into the minds of the reader.

in history and poetry. At the age of fourteen, he was sent away to school, and

He struggled a lot with his reading skills because of his poor eye sight and difficulty in seeing.

Young Woodson was the fourth of seven children. When he was little he focused on helping his family. His job was being a sharecropper, which his father also was. Young Woodson was also a miner.

Unlike Richard Rodriguez, my family understood why I read because they adore reading as well and they could see it was feeding my developing mind. His family only read when they had to which made it confounding as to why their son was so involved in reading as many books as he did. It even became a running joke in my family to call me Albert Einstein because of how much I thoroughly enjoyed talking everyone’s ears off about him and what I had learned from my

Sherman Alexie began to read at a young age because of his father passion for reading. His father was educated but also was an alcoholic. In an Interview of Sherman Alexie by Times magazine, Sherman Alexie talks about his deceased father.

At a young age Adams took up an interest in reading after going to a private school down the road from his home, with help from his father pushing him towards education instead of

What helped him write his writing his books was that 1. He liked to write a lot and 2. He wrote letters to his mother and his mother kept all of his letters in a pile wrapped with string. He used those letters as reference in Boy. Writing letters gave him experience to write a book, especially about his life. He was a skilled writer, and had ideas flow in his head.

The stepmother Sarah Bush Johnston encouraged him to read. She seen that he had thirsted for knowledge. she knows the importance of education so she bought her stepson Lincoln books so he can read an strive in the future because she didn’t want him to come out like illiterate like both of his parents.

• on a point in the north eastern part of the lake that was the location of Rock Garden Camp or Blackstone Landing it is noted a good stand of pine;

The first few years of his life were hard. His father died when he was three. His mother remarried and sent him and his brother to be an indentured servant.