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Throwing off the yoke
by Laura Crossett Nov 07, 2008 08:35 AMWhere the Ox Does Not Plow: A Mexican American Ballad is Manuel Peña’s memoir of his childhood as an immigrant farmworker.
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A battle for the land – and soul – of the West
by John Calderazzo Nov 07, 2008 08:35 AMIn Bargaining for Eden: The Fight for the Last Open Spaces in America, photographer Stephen Trimble tells the story of the controversial Snowbasin ski development in Utah.
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Living with trees
by Kyle Boelte Oct 27, 2008 07:05 AMIn Between Earth and Sky, Nadlini Nadkarni ponders the ways in which trees sustain human beings.
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Tales from the heartwood
by Eric Peterson Oct 27, 2008 08:04 AMWorking the Woods, Working the Sea gathers fiction, nonfiction and poetry on the relationship between labor and nature in the Pacific Northwest.
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On the Stegner trail
by Smith Maddrey Oct 13, 2008 01:15 PMPhilip L. Fradkin looks at the life of an iconic Western author in Wallace Stegner and the American West.
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The creation of wholeness
by Jared Blackley Sep 15, 2008 02:27 PMTerry Tempest Williams celebrates Rwanda, mosaics and Utah prairie dogs in her new book, Finding Beauty in a Broken World.
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When war came home
by Emma Brown Sep 15, 2008 02:26 PMIvan Doig’s new novel, The Eleventh Man, follows a Montana man across the globe during World War II.
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Only the scared survive
by Michelle Nijhuis Sep 15, 2008 02:25 PMJoel Berger’s The Better to Eat You With and William Stolzenburg’s Where the Wild Things Were examine predators and the role of fear.
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Book Notes
by Kate Niles Sep 15, 2008 02:25 PMAn owl and his girl, bottom-feeders and the world's greatest flood.
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Searching for something to search for
by Brian Kevin Sep 15, 2008 02:25 PMIn Roads to Quoz: An American Mosey, William Least Heat-Moon saunters across America, looking for the strange and the true.
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Alexandra Fuller: A fine line between protest and profession
by Jennie Lay Sep 15, 2008 02:25 PMAuthor Alexandra Fuller talks about the impacts of oil drilling on her chosen home of Wyoming.
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Fall reading
by Jodi Peterson Sep 15, 2008 02:24 PMJodi Peterson and Kate Niles spotlight new books on Western subjects and/or by Western authors, both fiction and nonfiction.
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Cheewa James: Chronicler of the ‘Tribe That Wouldn’t Die’
by Debra Utacia Krol Sep 15, 2008 02:24 PMCheewa James digs into the little-known history of her own people: the Modoc Indians of southern Oregon’s Klamath Valley.
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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.
