http://www.hcn.org These are the search results for the query, showing results 1 to 15. http://www.hcn.org/issues/45.6/beatification-of-a-sinner-a-review-of-the-soledad-crucifixion Nancy Wood's novel describes a rogue priest's spiritual encounters with the Calabaza people No publisher Annie Dawid Catholicism Calabaza people Nancy Wood New Mexico The Soledad Crucifixion 2013-04-11T20:54:05Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/45.2/water-is-still-for-fightin-a-review-of-durango Gary Hart's seventh novel takes us to another front in the water wars, the decades-long dispute over damming southern Colorado’s Animas- La Plata rivers to provide more water for the growing town of Durango. No publisher Annie Dawid Gary Hart Durango Animas-La Plata project 2013-01-29T20:54:14Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/44.21/of-faith-and-frostbite-a-review-of-true-sisters Mormon pioneers crossing the country in 1856 meet with disaster in Sandra Dallas' book. No publisher Annie Dawid True Sisters Sandra Dallas 2012-12-06T18:17:40Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/44.14/a-long-strange-trip-a-review-of-pot-farm In his memoir, Matthew Gavin Frank takes the reader on a hallucinatory journey through the medical marijuana industry in Mendocino County, Calif. No publisher Annie Dawid Autobiography Memoirs Medical marijuana Matthew Gavin Frank Nonfiction Mendocino County, California Marijuana growers Pot Farm 2012-08-15T23:40:55Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.15/the-aftermath-of-violence-a-review-of-the-color-of-night The narrator of Madison Smartt Bell's disturbing 13th novel is a former member of a murderous, Manson-like cult. No publisher Annie Dawid cults murder novels Manson family murders September 11 terrorist attacks fiction The Color of Night, Madison Smartt Bell 2011-08-31T17:26:11Z 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/42.22/excavating-john Kate Niles' wry and compassionate novel The Book of John tracks the travails of an archaeologist named John Gregory Wayne Thompson. No publisher Annie Dawid novels fiction Native Americans Kate Niles archaeologists The Book of John 2010-12-15T17:19:23Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/42.21/seven-months-of-solitude A young writer named Steve Edwards spends seven months living by Oregon's Rogue River in his memoir, Breaking into the Backcountry. No publisher Annie Dawid Steve Edwards Rogue River memoirs Breaking into the Backcountry nature writers PEN/Northwest Wilderness Writing Residency 2010-12-07T16:54:06Z 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/42.4/the-myths-of-native-american-identity Paul Chaat Smith's latest book, Everything You Know About Indians Is Wrong, is a funny and painful collection of essays on the ways that Indians are stereotyped. No publisher Annie Dawid Paul Chaat Smith Indian stereotypes Comanches Native American identity Native American artists Everything You Know About Indians Is Wrong 2010-02-23T17:28:45Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/371/17726 In her first novel, Jackalope Dreams, Western writer Mary Clearman Blew gives us a tale of the contemporary West that rings both sad and true. No publisher Annie Dawid Mary Clearman Blew Jackalope Dreams rural Montana novels contemporary Western fiction fathers and daughters New West rural schoolteachers ranch life 2010-07-26T21:41:49Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/363/17499 Three new books about the West’s Indian wars – Ned Blackhawk’s Violence Over the Land, Kingsley Bray’s Crazy Horse: A Lakota Life, and Robert W. Larson’s Gall: Lakota War Chief – seem to romanticize a violent past. No publisher Annie Dawid Kingsley M. Bray Crazy Horse: A Lakota Life Violence Over the Land Chief Robert W. Larson Native Americans Ned Blackhawk American history Gall: Lakota War Indian Wars 2011-02-14T22:42:23Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/347/17038 In Rise, Do Not Be Afraid, poet Aaron Abeyta explores the lives of the people who lived and loved in the long-lost town of Santa Rita in Colorado’s remote San Luis Valley No publisher Annie Dawid San Luis Valley Gabriel Garcia Marquez magical realism Rise Hispanic life fiction first novels Do Not Be Afraid Colorado history Western culture Aaron Abeyta 2010-08-06T19:57:55Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/343/16922 The powerful short stories in Thomas McGuane’s Gallatin Canyon prove him to be the New West’s answer to Flannery O’Connor. No publisher Annie Dawid anthologies friendship suicide recovery Cuba difficult lives West loneliness fiction Communities in transition Ernest Hemingway alcoholics Thomas McGuane New book reviews Flannery O’Connor Key West short stories redemption 2011-09-01T19:41:51Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/328/16499 Steven Radosevich writes simple, painful, personal essays about the changing landscape of the Pacific Northwest in his new book, Good Wood: Growth, Loss and Renewal. No publisher Annie Dawid Communities in Transition Steven Radosevich Good Wood essays hunters fishermen grape growers anthologies Pacific Northwest Siletz Indians Tieton Washington memoirs family history timber logging clear-cutting forests Coast Range Charlie Wakenshaw teachers Oregon 2011-11-30T16:47:59Z News Article