Items by Cherie Newman — 9 items
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Searching for the truth about American Indians: A review of All Indians Do Not Live in Teepees (or Casinos)
Catherine C. Robbins seeks to go beyond the stereotypes about Native Americans in her essays in All Indians Do Not Live in Teepees (or Casinos).
by Cherie Newman, Feb 05, 2012 -
How we got to this place
In Driving on the Rim, Thomas McGuane creates a dark picaresque novel.
by Cherie Newman, Sep 12, 2010 -
Hula on the hill
In Butte, Mont., a giant hula dance calls attention to the polluted water in the Berkeley Pit.
by Cherie Newman, Aug 01, 2010 -
Peril in paradise
In The Light in High Places, naturalist Joe Hutto considers Wyoming wilderness, bighorn sheep, cowboys and other rare Western species.
by Cherie Newman, Jul 13, 2010 -
Saving the U.S. Forest Service
Timothy Egan's new book, The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America, credits early firefighters for saving the Forest Service.
by Cherie Newman, Apr 11, 2010 -
Creating a precedent for forgiveness
In Naseem Rakha's novel, The Crying Tree, a woman tries to forgive her son's murderer.
by Cherie Newman , Dec 20, 2009 -
Why some men are the way they are
Three new short story collections -- Nine Ten Again by Philip Condon, Where The Money Went by Kevin Canty, and Maile Meloy’s Both Ways Is The Only Way I Want It -- feature working-class men coping with damaged lives.
by Cherie Newman, Sep 13, 2009 -
Fishing for solace
In Yellowstone Autumn, Walter Wetherell describes a short season of solitary fly-fishing and contemplation in Yellowstone National Park.
by Cherie Newman, Apr 14, 2009 -
Shooting a double victory
In Full-Court Quest, Linda Peavy and Ursula Smith unearth the story of the American Indian girls of the Fort Shaw basketball team, who starred at the 1904 World’s Fair.
by Cherie Newman, Feb 17, 2009
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