Mildred Walker was immediately recognized for the quality of her first fiction in 1934. Fireweed won the prestigious Avery and Jule Hopwood Award. The setting is a small lumber town in Upper Michigan, the stomping grounds of Paul Bunyan and the giants of Swedish, German, and Finnish lore. Young Celie and her husband, Joe Linsen, are the children ...
"Homestead" is a collection of essays by Annick Smith, who moved with her husband and children from Seattle to Montana in 1964. Smith writes about many aspects of her adopted state, from cattle-branding to author Norman Maclean.
It is hard to love the high, cold plains of the American West. They are vast and harsh and demanding. And perhaps because they are so hard to love, prairies challenge the imaginative mind and the adventurous heart. "The Wide Open" reveals how some of the most interesting and accomplished writers and photographers in the country have met that ...
On one of North America's last remaining expanses of grassland the Nature Conservancy has begun what is perhaps the boldest ecological experiment ever attempted. They are not simply conserving the natural beauty of this place, where eight-foot-tall grasses roll for miles under limitless prairie skies; they are studying it and shaping it anew, ...
A feast for Monte Dolack fans, this celebration of his artwork at mid-career gathers 178 color reproductions of posters, paintings, and working sketches that were created from the 1970s to 2000.
A combination of memoir, travel book, and nature writing, Smith's book extols the beauty of the American heartland and meditates on the trials of life.
Smith unflinchingly tells of her young husband's final year. After an unsuccessful attempt to break into the movies in Hollywood, they return to Montana's Blackfoot River Valley just in time. His death left her with four sons to raise alone. But this is a glorious celebration, transcending grief. Annick Smith regales us with the joys of ...
Traces the history and natural ecosystem of Osage County, "The Tall Grass Preserve, " where man favorably cohabits with the environment. Complemented by the breathtaking photography of Harvey Payne.
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