http://www.hcn.org These are the search results for the query, showing results 1 to 15. http://www.hcn.org/issues/44.16/storm-on-lava-creek-a-season-in-yellowstone The power of a thunderstorm thrills a newcomer to Yellowstone National Park. No publisher Lauren Koshere Rocky Mountains Lauren Koshere Summer memories Xanterra Yellowstone National Park memoir 2012-09-28T16:12:12Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/articles/following-dad-down-the-road The author reminisces on an itinerant childhood and her family's travels up, down and across the country -- and how she now clings firmly to one place called home. No publisher Diane Sylvain travels with dad army brat family vacations Diane Sylvain memoir 2012-07-20T22:44:04Z News Article 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/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/43.8/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/43.2/glimpses-of-the-high-desert The essays in Ellen Waterston's Where the Crooked River Rises pay homage to her home in the high desert of eastern Oregon. No publisher Emilene Ostlind suicide eastern Oregon high desert drug addiction rural life Where the Crooked River Rises Ellen Waterston nonfiction Western culture essays memoir 2011-02-02T23:33:19Z 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/41.19/yes-to-desire-and-an-end-to-fear Charles Bowden's new book, Some of the Dead Are Still Breathing, reiterates the bad news of today but declares that times are changing. No publisher Laura Paskus Charles Bowden journalists nonfiction essays memoir Some of the Dead Are Still Breathing 2010-02-05T08:55:31Z 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 http://www.hcn.org/issues/316/16128 A View from the Inland Empire, a new collection of essays from Stephen J. Lyons, is an honest account of coming to — and later leaving — the West, and in the process learning about home and heart and family No publisher Laura Paskus Western Culture Stephen J. Lyons essays personal history memoir coming of age stories autobiography inland Northwest Palouse region family life adult children Illinois daughters and fathers parents small towns rural life 2010-02-05T08:57:02Z News Article