This collection of vivid and compelling literature ranges across Montana's literary landscape in descriptions of explorers' discoveries, stories from mining and agricultural frontiers, and powerful memoirs from Native Americans, as well as unforgettable images created by contemporary writers.
The Great Basin--an area the size of France carved out of Oregon, California, and Nevada--and a ranch as big as Rhode Island; for three generations this was Kittredge land and William Kittredge's birthright. Here he tells how this dream turned into an adulthood of dislocation and loss, the end of a way of life. Excerpts in Harper's, Esquire, and ...
One of our finest writers about the American West brings all his experience to bear on a wide-ranging, exhilarating of the Southwest for the National Geographic Directories series. William Kittredge has spent part of every year for the past two decades in and around Arizona. He has travelled the main highways of the area and most of the back roads ...
After numerous essays, short stories, and the heralded memoir "Hole in the Sky," Kittredge gives readers a debut novel that ratifies his standing as a leading writer of the America West.
The Klamath Basin is a land of teeming wildlife, expansive marshes, blue-ribbon trout streams, tremendous stretches of forests, and large ranches in southern Oregon and northern California. Known to waterfowl, songbirds, and shorebirds, the Klamath Basin's marshlands are a mecca for birds along the Pacific Flyway. This gorgeously illustrated book ...
This is a deeply felt and highly informed essay collection about life in the American west by one of the finest writers ever to emerge from that region. As the "Seattle Times" has said of "Owning It All": "You may never again see the American west in quite the same way if you take the time to view it through the eyes of William Kittredge. [This is ...
"Kittredge paints with these colors: sky blue, night black, blood red. Nature has more--but none truer."--"The New York Times Book Review"""We were meat hunters. You spent money for shells, you brought home meat. I saw Teddy Spandau die on that account. Went off into open water chest deep, just trying to get some birds he shot. Cramped up and ...
William Kittredge grew up on and then managed his family's cattle ranch in Eastern Oregon. There, he lived firsthand some of the myths of land, manhood, and manifest destiny on which our American culture was founded.
In a whirlwind survey of literature, history, biology, and geography, Kittredge poetically answers questions of possibility: of how to be and how to develop both as persons and as cultures. Readers will recognize the familiar voice of Kittredge's bestselling HOLE IN THE SKY.
William Kittredge's relationship to the spare, often unforgiving Western landscape is fraught with contradictions. Having grown up on a cattle ranch in Oregon, he has an intimate connection to the vast landscape that was once vital to his family's trade. He has also witnessed, over many decades, the depletion of the West's natural resources due to ...
The American West is as varied in its inhabitants as it is in its landforms, yet what has come to stand for "Western" writing is the myth of the wagon train and the lone gunman. This authoritative anthology assembled poems, essays, stories, and excepts--by Ken Kesey, Raymond Carver, Larry McMurtry, Ivan Doig, and many others--which transcend the ...
Kittredge relates his coming of age on a property his family transformed from a farm dependent on horses to a modern agribusiness. Painfully reflecting on the abandonment of old ways, Kittredge calls for new, radical stories about the West that will foster compassion and caretaking.
""Who Owns the West?" asks the important question that is at the heart of the change transforming the region, and no one is better prepared to lead this discussion than William Kittredge". --"The Bloomsbury Review".
Yamsi, a six-thousand-acre working cattle ranch at the headwaters of the Williamson River in Oregon's Klamath Basin, is the setting for Dayton Hyde's lively meditation on what it means to be a rancher in the West in the late twentieth century. In Yamsi, Hyde records a year on the ranch as the seasons change and the ranch work changes with them. ...
After a lifetime spent writing and working on his family's cattle ranch outside of Helena, Montana, Ralph Beer has gathered his best magazine essays into one collection called "In These Hills". In thirty-three essays he provides a moving and elegiac tribute to lives now passed, an often humorous homage to the provincial, and an attempt 'to fathom ...
Michael Melford's stunning photos capture the power and beauty of the rugged mountains and pristine valleys of the Northern Rockies. His landscapes evoke a sense of the infinite nuances of nature which entice the observer, but which withhold revelation. Inthe Introduction William Kittredge describes the realities of life in Montana. 120 color ...
"There's no denying [Hartman's] abilities as a photographer. Shape, color, and light, he has an impeccable eye for composition, for juxtaposing line against line, drawing the viewer's eye into his subject...In North Dakota, he likes a flood-drenched plain in orange twilight, one stretch of barbed wire fence in a strong horizontal, another ...
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It's Your Misfortune and None of My Own: A New History of the American West
