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An unforgettable journey
by Janice Gable Bashman Sep 01, 2008 08:46 PMIn his second novel, So Brave, So Young, So Handsome, Leif Enger takes the reader on a journey across the American West, circa 1915.
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Portrait of a threatened land
by Matt Goodlett Sep 01, 2008 08:45 PMIn Travels in the Greater Yellowstone, Jack Turner celebrates and fights for the preservation of an incredible but endangered landscape.
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Another kind of hero
by Francisco Tharp Aug 18, 2008 08:43 AMIn The Legend of Colton H. Bryant Alexandra Fuller recreates the life of a young man who was killed on a drilling rig in Wyoming.
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Living deep in place
by Sarah Gilman Aug 18, 2008 08:43 AMShopping for Porcupine weaves between worry and worship in its celebration of author Seth Kantner’s unique life in northern Alaska.
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Catastrophe or nature’s process
by Andrea Clark Mason Aug 04, 2008 12:00 AMIn the Blast Zone: Catastrophe and Renewal on Mount St. Helens is an anthology of essays, poems and scientific reports about the return of life to a volcanic landscape.
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Riders and writers, hobos and fauxbeaux
by Jared Blackley Aug 04, 2008 12:00 AMIn Riding Toward Everywhere, William T. Vollman describes his adventures rambling by freight train across the West.
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Dreaming of a New Deal for nature
by Jon Christensen Jul 18, 2008 03:00 PMA review of Neil M. Maher's book, "Nature's New Deal: The Civilian Conservation Corps and the Roots of the American Environmental Movement," which reminds us that to succeed, an environmental policy must reckon compromise.
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Solo journeys, life lessons
by Irene Wanner Jun 23, 2008 12:00 PMIn the nine essays gathered in her new book, Hiking Alone, poet and artist Mary Beath celebrates nature from the point of view of an independent woman.
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Loves, losses and utter disasters
by Tanya Lee Jun 23, 2008 12:00 PMIn her new novel, The Berkeley Pit, Dorothy Bryant intertwines the stories of two very different Berkeleys: The California college town during the ‘60s, and the famously toxic open-pit mine in Butte, Mont.
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Cowgirl meets lawsuit
by Annie Dawid May 26, 2008 12:00 PMIn her first novel, Jackalope Dreams, Western writer Mary Clearman Blew gives us a tale of the contemporary West that rings both sad and true.
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The (non)idiot’s guide to energy
by Allen Best May 26, 2008 12:00 PMIn Power of the People: America’s New Electricity Choices, energy specialist Carol Sue Tombari has written a concise and remarkably readable book about the best way to tackle our nation’s energy problems.
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Small-town struggle in a big land
by Andrea Clark Mason May 12, 2008 12:00 PMIn his first book, The Enders Hotel, Brandon R. Schrand describes a childhood spent growing up in a funky hotel in the small town of Soda Springs, Idaho.
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Words that mountains speak
by Sylvia Torti May 12, 2008 12:00 PMIn Contact: Mountain Climbing and Environmental Thinking, Jeffrey Mathes McCarthy has assembled 23 essays from a wide range of authors.
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Rolling on the rivers
by Janice Gable Bashman Apr 28, 2008 12:00 PMThe essays in Page Stegner’s Adios Amigos celebrate the fragile beauty of Western rivers and the lives of the artists and explorers who journeyed down them.
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Forces of nature
by Sara Rubin Apr 28, 2008 12:00 PMAmy Irvine’s memoir, Trespass, describes how she moved to rural Utah after her father’s suicide.
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Lines in the sand
by Evelyn Schlatter Apr 14, 2008 12:00 PMThe essays in Gary Paul Nabhan’s Arab/American celebrate the landscape, culture and cuisine of two great deserts: The Middle Eastern lands from which his ancestors came and the Sonoran Desert he now lives in.
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A life of words and wilderness
by Eric Peterson Apr 14, 2008 12:00 PMRick Bass’ memoir, Why I Came West, describes how his 20-year struggle to save Montana’s Yaak Valley held him hostage, preventing him from concentrating on writing the short fiction that he loves.
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Thinking like a fish
by Irene Wanner Mar 31, 2008 01:00 PMThe essays in Chad Hanson’s collection Swimming with Trout celebrate the wonder of water and its mysterious inhabitants.
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Reasons to stay
by T.K. Dalton Mar 31, 2008 01:00 PMIn Charlotte Bacon’s novel, Split Estate, a damaged New York family seeks refuge and renewal on a Wyoming ranch.
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Remembering our wildness
by Sarah Gilman Mar 17, 2008 01:00 PMIn The Animal Dialogues, Colorado author Craig Childs writes of chance encounters with wild animals.
