http://www.hcn.org These are the search results for the query, showing results 1 to 15. http://www.hcn.org/issues/44.9/filling-empty-pages-a-review-of-when-women-were-birds In her latest memoir, When Women Were Birds, writer Terry Tempest Williams tries to solve the mystery of the cloth-bound journals her dying mother left her -- all of them completely blank. No publisher Devon Fredericksen autobiography cancer Terry Tempest Williams nonfiction family history When Women Were Birds memoir Refuge 2012-07-06T21:53:52Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/44.5/traveling-arizona-highways-in-your-dreams-and-on-the-ground In 1960, an Illinois mailman falls in love with the desert through the pages of Arizona Highways and hands on his dream -- and a piece of Mohave County --to his son and grandson. No publisher Tony Fitzpatrick autobiography Arizona Old Route 66 Mohave County family life Arizona Highways magazine road trips Arizona desert 2012-03-30T11:58:21Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/44.5/generosity-of-voice-and-heart-a-review-of-wild-from-lost-to-found-on-the-pacific-crest-trail Cheryl Strayed's memoir Wild describes her arduous trek along the Pacific Crest Trail as she seeks to recover from life-changing grief. No publisher Melissa Hart autobiography backpacking hiking Cheryl Strayed Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail nonfiction memoir 2012-04-11T14:30:10Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/44.3/a-life-measured-in-cordwood-a-review-of-into-the-heat-my-love-affair-with-trees-fire-saws-and-men Cindy Bellinger's memoir, Into the Heat: My Love Affair with Trees, Fire, Saws and Men, introduces us to a determined, 60-something, chainsaw-wielding Western woman. No publisher Gussie Fauntleroy autobiography Into the Heat: My Love Affair with Trees Cindy Bellinger Fire northern New Mexico rural life Saws and Men memoir nonfiction 2012-02-14T23:48:37Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/wotr/home-on-the-range In one Montana family, it's a father-daughter Thanksgiving tradition to do things like build makeshift ramps to help trapped wild animals escape from stock tanks. No publisher Marian Lyman Kirst Western families environmental activists rescuing wildlife from stock tanks rural life holiday traditions BLM lands Thanksgiving autobiography monkey wrenching childhood memories father-daughter traditions stock tanks memoir 2011-12-06T22:33:59Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.18/mapping-the-hi-line-a-review-of-honyocker-dreams-montana-memories Writer David Mogen sets out to understand his childhood and his rural ancestors, who lived along Montana’s Hi-Line, just below the Canadian border. No publisher Andrea Clark Mason autobiography Montana Hi-Line genealogy small town life Eastern European immigrants fathers and sons David Mogen Honyocker Dreams: Montana Memories rural life nonfiction Great Plains memoir 2011-10-26T20:27:59Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.14/a-life-in-the-wild Carter Niemeyer's memoir Wolfer is the entertaining story of a government trapper who loves wildlife - especially serious predators like wolves. No publisher Hal Herring Carter Niemeyer autobiography wildlife biologists Wolfer memoir government trappers nonfiction Western culture wolves hunters 2011-08-19T18:44:56Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.11/river-town Flagstaff, Ariz., may not really have its own river, but to many of its residents it is a true river town. No publisher Christa Sadler Flagstaff River running Christa Sadler Grand Canyon autobiography Colorado River river guides essays friendship 2011-06-22T20:45:37Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.8/are-you-an-indian In his memoir, Navajos Wear Nikes: A Reservation Life, Jim Kristofic remembers the challenges and joys of a tough childhood spent on the Navajo Nation. No publisher Annie Dawid autobiography violence, childhood Navajos Wear Nikes Navajo youth reservation life memoir Jim Kristofic 2011-05-12T21:42:56Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/42.18/a-raw-edged-memoir In her second memoir, Raw Edges, Phyllis Barber leaves her marriage and tries to find herself. No publisher Annie Dawid autobiography Mormon women How I Got Cultured: A Nevada Memoir divorce Phyllis Barber Raw Edges 2010-10-21T20:18:59Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/42.17/no-walk-in-the-park In his compassionate, understated memoir, Walking Home, Lynn Schooler hikes across rugged Southeast Alaska. No publisher Michael Engelhard autobiography Lynn Schooler hiking divorce Walking Home Southeast Alaska male middle age memoir 2010-10-26T17:43:04Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/42.16/taking-stock Annie Proulx's memoir Bird Cloud and Gary Snyder's book-and-film project, The Etiquette of Freedom, unveil the private lives of two iconic Western writers. No publisher Kurt Caswell autobiography poets Gary Snyder The Etiquette of Freedom Western writers Jim Harrison Bird Cloud memoir The Practice of the Wild Annie Proulx 2010-09-10T18:00:49Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/42.10/notes-from-a-wyoming-sheepwagon Laura Bell's new memoir, Claiming Ground, tells of her years spent working as a Wyoming sheepherder. No publisher Traci J. Macnamara Wyoming life autobiography Claiming Ground memoirs Laura Bell sheepherders nonfiction ranch life 2011-08-31T21:55:03Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/wotr/when-a-scientist-becomes-an-activist In his first book, Storms of My Grandchildren, NASA climate scientist James Hansen explains the truth of climate change and reveals why he has risked his career to bring the issue to light. No publisher Auden Schendler autobiography Storms of My Grandchildren climate change NASA scientists James Hansen climate scientists 2010-03-09T17:44:04Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/317/16160 In the essays gathered in Breaking Through the Clouds, Richard Fleck weaves in history, humanity and poetry to tell the stories of the mountains he climbs No publisher Pete Warzel Camping and Hiking Richard Fleck Breaking through the clouds mountains climbing hiking essays personal history memoir autobiography friendship Longs Peak Mount Fuji Never Summer Mountains Katahdin Rawah Range Mummy Mountain Tabeguache Halla San Medicine Bo 2010-02-05T08:57:13Z News Article