Results for keyword: nonfiction
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‘Men standing in the shadows began to weep’
Writers John N. Maclean and Mark Matthews look closely at two famous – and deadly – Western wildfires in their new books, The Thirtymile Fire and A Great Day to Fight Fire.
by Ray Ring, Oct 29, 2007 -
Making a home for hope
Laura Paskus interviews Western intellectual, activist and writer Rebecca Solnit.
by Laura Paskus, Oct 29, 2007 -
Fall reading
A list of the most intriguing current books by Western authors or on Western subjects.
by Jodi Peterson, Oct 29, 2007 -
The great American road trip
In At Speed: Traveling the Long Road Between Two Points, W. Scott Olsen celebrates the world as seen through a windshield
by Ray Vandersall, Jun 25, 2007 -
Impressions of Pueblo prehistory
Craig Childs’ new book House of Rain is less an in-depth look at Southwestern archaeology than one person’s attempt to appreciate a part of the world
by Dave Phillips, Jun 11, 2007 -
A brief, interpretive look at the Indian Wars
Michael Blake’s new nonfiction book, Indian Yell, fails to live up to its ambitious subtitle, “The Heart of an American Insurgency,” with its quick tour of 12 battles between the U.S. Cavalry and American Indians.
by Jared Blackley, Apr 30, 2007 -
A tale of shame and glory in the Southwest
Hampton Sides’ new book, Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West, follows Kit Carson through the bloody history of the 19th century Southwest.
by Jared Blackley, Feb 05, 2007 -
Notes from a place of risk and hope
In Big Wonderful: Notes from Wyoming, Kevin Holdsworth describes his love for a harsh landscape in essays, poetry and fiction.
by Julianne Couch, Feb 05, 2007 -
How to be #1 in the world and still be a loser
Giles Slade’s new book, Made to Break: Technology and Obsolescence in America, is a fascinating intellectual history of how marketers demolished the American tradition of thrift.
by Matt Jenkins, Jan 22, 2007 -
The art of an alien landscape
In Westernness: A Meditation, poet and scholar Alan Williamson examines what it means to live in the West through the eyes of the region’s writers and artists
by Margaret Foley, Dec 11, 2006






