Book Reviews
-
Western water in the age of climate change
In Dead Pool: Lake Powell, Global Warming, and the Future of Water in the West, James Lawrence Powell examines the impact of climate change on the West’s future.
by Kyle Boelte, May 26, 2009 -
A conflict of values
Michael J. Yochim writes the primer on the Yellowstone snowmobile conflict in his admirably balanced Yellowstone and the Snowmobile: Locking Horns over National Park Use.
by Ray Ring , Apr 28, 2009 -
Renewing a battered land
Richard Manning looks at the prairie and considers its future in Rewilding the West: Restoration in a Prairie Landscape.
by Kyle Boelte, Apr 27, 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 -
Nonprofits reap the profits
Christine MacDonald takes on the unscrupulous executives who run big environmental groups in Green, Inc.: An Environmental Insider Reveals How a Good Cause Has Gone Bad.
by Brian Park, Apr 14, 2009 -
Raising cows -- and kids -- in the West
In The Family Ranch: Land, Children and Tradition in the American West, Linda Hussa looks at the way modern rural families live their lives.
by Linda M. Hasselstrom , Mar 16, 2009 -
History viewed through gunsights
Hal Herring traces the history of the American West through its guns and the people who used them in Famous Firearms of the Old West.
by Ray Ring, Mar 16, 2009 -
Of flotsam and jetsam
In Strand: An Odyssey of Pacific Island Debris, naturalist Bonnie Henderson traces the origins of the strange things she finds on the Oregon seashore.
by Melissa Hart , Mar 02, 2009 -
An underground uprising
In his new book, Killing for Coal, Thomas G. Andrews looks at the Colorado labor wars that erupted into violence at the 1914 Ludlow Massacre.
by Andrea Appleton, Mar 02, 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 -
A battle for the land -- and soul -- of the West
The American West at Risk presents a familiar litany of Western land-use problems, but also offers suggestions for how to solve them.
by Chuck Hulin, Feb 17, 2009 -
The darkest element
In Uranium: War, Energy, and the Rock That Shaped the World, Tom Zoellner tells the story of the radioactive element.
by Greg Aitkenhead , Feb 02, 2009 -
Catch him if you can
In The Runner, David Samuels profiles a con man named James Hogue, who duped Princeton University with his invented Western biography.
by Lawrence Lanahan, Feb 02, 2009 -
In praise of prey
In his unusual natural history book, American Buffalo: In Search of a Lost Icon, Steven Rinella reveals himself as a hunter with complex feelings about his prey.
by Brian Kevin , Jan 19, 2009 -
Life during wartime
In his new short story collection, Refresh, Refresh, Benjamin Percy explores the lives of people in rural Oregon during the Iraq War.
by T.K. Dalton, Dec 24, 2008 -
Fighting for forests
In Arthur Carhart: Wilderness Prophet, Tom Wolf tells the story of a prophetic Forest Service employee and early environmentalist.
by Brian Park, Dec 22, 2008 -
Two men, two paths
David Guterson’s new novel, The Other, follows the diverging lives of two old friends, one who settles for a quiet family life and another who seeks out a hermit’s existence in the Olympic rainforest.
by Cali Bagby, Dec 02, 2008 -
Night: not just for astronomers
In the anthology Let There Be Night, editor Paul Bogard and 29 writers and scientists testify on behalf of the value of darkness.
by Andrea Clark Mason, Dec 02, 2008 -
Bearing witness on the border
Eodus/Exodo uses the words of Charles Bowden and the photographs of Julian Cardona to tell the heartbreaking story of the modern-day border region.
by Don Waters, Nov 21, 2008 -
Throwing off the yoke
Where the Ox Does Not Plow: A Mexican American Ballad is Manuel Peña’s memoir of his childhood as an immigrant farmworker.
by Laura Crossett, Nov 07, 2008
High Country News in your inbox!