Empire of Pelts sheds new light on the history of early North America by reconsidering the misunderstood social figure of the coureur de bois, born in Canada in the second half of the seventeenth century, who underwent many iterations across North America through the mid-nineteenth century. Historian Gilles Havard conceptualizes the traveling ......
How often are we told that time will provide the emotional distance we need to comprehend what has happened to us? How often do we encounter the claim that as the weeks, months, and years pass we will achieve greater clarity? In this searching, playful collection, Patrick Madden gives the lie to such easy consolations. Through a simple conceit, ......
Since the team's founding in 1976, the Seattle Mariners have become one of the most important social institutions in Seattle. Beginning with the brief tenure of the Seattle Pilots and the legal battle with MLB to bring baseball back to the city, the early years were a struggle, as were the 1980s. In 1989 Ken Griffey Jr. made his debut and ......
In Ice Tribes James Card makes the case that ice fishing is much more than an oddball outdoor activity: It's a sport of strategy, stoicism, and analytical skill. It can also be a sport of camaraderie, a winter lifestyle all its own. Where ice fishers gather, they create a feeling of festivity and community spirit. Card's Ice Tribes is an ......
Searching for Cheyenne Artist Paul Flying Eagle Goodbear
Dancing Warrior is the biography of Cheyenne artist Paul Flying Eagle Goodbear, born in Oklahoma on the cusp of territory and statehood, and the story of Molly Hollenbach's determined historical sleuthing to pen that biography. Goodbear was the grandson of Cheyenne Chief Turkey Legs and the great-great-grandson of Chief Whirlwind. Hollenbach ......
Bird Creek flows unmarked through E. L. Kittredge's Montana ranch, making discovery difficult for even the most dedicated traveler. The creek once appeared on maps as a thin line, barely visible in a maze of county roads. Now, like the creek itself going underground in drought, that line has disappeared from official Montana state guidebooks, ......
The virus arrives, the world shutters, and in Washington, DC, the homesick journalist Christopher Vondracek--recently relocated from South Dakota--starts scrolling through digitized oil paintings by the Midwestern nostalgia artist Terry Redlin. Vondracek traces Redlin's coming-of-age during the Farm Crisis as well as his own fleeting memories of a ......
This collection covers eight years of unrest, personal and communal, beginning with stubborn patriotic certainty, a faith in neighborliness and American ideals, and ending with something broader: an alliance with the matriarch, Mother Nature, and the ways she elides ideology or definition. The essays shift perspective to focus on subjects too ......
Winner of the National Christopher Award Winner of the Oregon Book Award From 1970 to 1999 the American peregrine falcon was on the U.S. endangered species list, and many doubted it would survive. Marcy Cottrell Houle was a young woman wildlife biologist observing one of the last remaining pairs--located at an Ancestral Puebloan archaeological ......
