Results for keyword: biography
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Living on faith: A review of The Man Who Quit Money
In The Man Who Quit Money, Mark Sundeen tells the story of Daniel Suelo of Moab, Utah, a well-educated idealist who has chosen to dumpster-dive for food and live illegally in public-land caves.
by Chérie Newman, Apr 15, 2012 -
Girls gone wild -- 1900s style: A review of Nothing Daunted
Dorothy Wickenden's charming, meticulously researched Nothing Daunted tells the true story of two society girls who went to Colorado to become rural schoolteachers in 1916.
by Erica Wetter, Dec 25, 2011 -
Chronicles of the 'Cowboy Candidate,' a review of Theodore Roosevelt in the Badlands
In his thorough history, Roger Di Silvestro delves deep into the early life of the future president, particularly his discovery of the West.
by Martin Connelly, Oct 16, 2011 -
No bones about it: two books on the disappearing Everett Ruess
Two new books tackle the mystery of Everett Ruess, who vanished somewhere in the Four Corners region in 1934.
by Traci J. Macnamara, Sep 18, 2011 -
The genesis of the West
Douglas Brinkley's magisterial The Wilderness Warrior describes how Teddy Roosevelt created the American West we love today.
by Ed Marston, Jan 14, 2010 -
Hits and missives from Cactus Ed
In Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast, David Petersen assembles some of the correspondence of Western writer Edward Abbey into an eminently readable but ultimately unenlightening collection.
by Brian Kevin, Sep 18, 2006 -
HCN says farewell to an old friend
Herman Warsh, a beloved former HCN board member and longtime supporter of the paper, is dead
by Ed Marston, May 15, 2006 -
John Muir: Family, Friends, and Adventures
John Muir: Family, Friends and Adventures, edited by Sally M. Miller and Daryl Morrison, collects well-illustrated, sometimes scholarly essays on the great naturalist
by Staff, Feb 06, 2006 -
Maverick Autobiographies: Women Writers and the American West, 1900-1936
In Maverick Autobiographies, Cathryn Halverson rediscovers three fascinating Western women writers: Mary MacLane, Opal Whiteley and Juanita Harrison
by Staff, Sep 05, 2005 -
William Henry Jackson's 'The Pioneer Photographer'
William Henry Jackson’s ‘The Pioneer Photographer’ by Bob Blair is a delightful coffee-table book that collects the photos, map sketches, paintings and notes of the West’s famous 19th century photographer
by Staff, Jun 13, 2005
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