Edward Dorn Out: Forms of Dispossession

[para. 1]: "In the summer of 1965 Edward Dorn attended the Berkeley Poetry Conference, substituting for LeRoi Jones. He spoke to the audience of his travel with photographer Leroy Lucas through what is known geographically as the Basin-Plateau, an area occupied by several of the western United States, including Idaho, Oregon, Nevada, and Utah. Beginning in Duck Valley, on the Nevada-Idaho border and continuing west as far as Reno, both men documented their experiences on long and often gravelly roads that led from boom-and-gloom towns of western settlement to more desolate and isolate reservations. The results of their journey were documented and published a year later

in The Shoshoneans: The People of the Basin-Plateau."