Background
Bergon, Frank was born on February 24, 1943 in Ely, Nevada, United States. Son of Frank Albert and Lina Rose (Mendive) Bergon.
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In 1911 a posse chased an itinerant Shoshone family across 200 hundred miles of Nevada desert and slaughtered them. Shoshone Mike re-creates this final chapter in the Old West through the eyes of an anachronistic sheriff.
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(Many articles on the Wilderness and it's appeal.)
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writer English language educator
Bergon, Frank was born on February 24, 1943 in Ely, Nevada, United States. Son of Frank Albert and Lina Rose (Mendive) Bergon.
After attending elementary school at Saint Joachim in Madera, California and high school at Bellarmine in San Jose, he received a Bachelor of Arts in English at Boston College, attended Stanford University as a Wallace Stegner Fellow, and completed a Doctor of Philosophy in English and American Literature at Harvard University.
Bergon has published ten books—four novels, a critical study of Stephen Crane, and five edited collections and anthologies. A major concern of his work is with the lives of Basque Americans in the West. His writing about Native Americans ranges from the Shoshone of Nevada to the Maya of Chiapas, Mexico.
His Nevada trilogy consists of three novels spanning a century from the Shoshone massacre of 1911 (Shoshone Mike), to the shooting of Fish and Game officers by the self-styled mountain man Claude Dallas (Wild Game), to the current battle over nuclear waste in the Nevada desert (The Temptations of Street Editor & Brother South).
Bergon’s new California trilogy, beginning with the novel, Jesse’s Ghost, focuses on his Basque-Béarnais heritage in the Central Valley of California. He also writes about the natural history and environment of the American West in both fiction and non-fiction, such as in The Journals of Lewis and Clark.
Bergon has taught at the University of Washington and for many years at Vassar College, where he is Professor Emeritus of English. In 1998, Bergon was inducted into the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame.
(When Jack Irigaray agrees to go along as backup on what s...)
(In 1911 a posse chased an itinerant Shoshone family acros...)
(In 1911 a posse chased an itinerant Shoshone family acros...)
(Many articles on the Wilderness and it's appeal.)
Member Modern Language Association, American Studies Association, Western Literature Association, Association Study of Literature and the Environment, John Burroughs Association (board directors).
Married Holly St. John Neil, July 28, 1979.
