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Alexandra Fuller, whose recent book The Legend of Colton H. Bryant is a portrait of a worker who died in Wyoming’s energy fields, talks about the connection between people and land; about why she left her native Zimbabwe and fell in love with the rugged landscape of the Western United States; and about why she continues to protest the Bush administration’s energy policy.

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Audio: A conversation with Alexandra Fuller

by Marty Durlin, High Country News
September 22, 2008

<h1>Audio: A conversation with Alexandra Fuller</h1> <p class="byline">by Marty Durlin, High Country News <br />September 22, 2008</p> <p> AudioPlayer.setup("http://s3.amazonaws.com/hcn-media/player.swf", {<br /> width: 290<br /> }); </p> <p id="audioplayer_1">To listen to the audio interview you need to have the Adobe Flash Player installed and Javascript enabled.</p> <p> AudioPlayer.embed("audioplayer_1", {soundFile: "http://s3.amazonaws.com/hcn-media/2008-09-22-AlexandraFuller.mp3"}); </p> <p>Alexandra Fuller, whose recent book <em>The Legend of Colton H. Bryant</em> is a portrait of a worker who died in Wyoming’s energy fields, talks about the connection between people and land; about why she left her native Zimbabwe and fell in love with the rugged landscape of the Western United States; and about why she continues to protest the Bush administration’s energy policy.</p> <p>Read the profile, <a href="../issues/40.17/alexandra-fuller-a-fine-line-between-protest-and">Alexandra Fuller: A fine line between protest and profession.</a></p> <p>This &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://country-survey-collabs.info/articles/audio-a-conversation-with-alexandra-fuller/&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; first appeared on &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://country-survey-collabs.info Country News&lt;/a&gt; and is republished here under a &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;img src=&quot;https://i0.wp.com/www.hcn.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/cropped-HCN_Logo-Monogram_White_Sq-2.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;amp;quality=100&amp;amp;ssl=1&quot; style=&quot;width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;&quot;&gt;&lt;img id=&quot;republication-tracker-tool-source&quot; src=&quot;https://country-survey-collabs.info/?republication-pixel=true&amp;post=94399&amp;amp;ga4=G-0NS3WVPPTN&quot; style=&quot;width:1px;height:1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;script&gt; PARSELY = { autotrack: false, onload: function() { PARSELY.beacon.trackPageView({ url: &quot;https://country-survey-collabs.info/articles/audio-a-conversation-with-alexandra-fuller/&quot;, urlref: window.location.href }); } } &lt;/script&gt; &lt;script id=&quot;parsely-cfg&quot; src=&quot;//cdn.parsely.com/keys/hcn.org/p.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;</p> Copy to Clipboard

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