Continuing my new obsession with Teddy Roosevelt! I liked this book and it is certainly well written and researched. The only thing preventing me from giving it four stars is that I found it pretty depressing! The first half is great. In the second half there's a lot of loss and death and destruc...
This is a very interesting biography of Edward Curtis, an outstanding photographer of Native American life. It provides not only a view into Curtis' complex personality but also into the Native American cultures he was recording, and the social times and context within which he was working. A ver...
Egan has used vivid and detailed descriptions of the calamitous fire of 1910 to provide a lens through which to understand the inception and growth of the conservation movement and the National Forest Service. The subtitle is a little misleading (Teddy Roosevelt was not directly involved with th...
A good book...a thorough history...but dry as a throat full of sawdust in the middle of the desert. That about sums it up, but of course I will continue to babble on for a few more paragraphs. Before reading this book, I knew next to nothing about the Dust Bowl and the cataclysmic storms that oc...
Timothy Egan is an important Western writer. Not a writer of Westerns, but a Western writer. He documents forgotten stories of the American West, with a particular emphasis on the Northwest. Among his more important works are The Worst Hard Time (which departs from his usual northwestern setting ...
Timothy Egan describes his journeys in the Pacific Northwest through visits to salmon fisheries, redwood forests and the manicured English gardens of Vancouver. Here is a blend of history, anthropology and politics.
Karl Kernberger, a photographer with eclectic taste and a love of the Southwest, traveled east to have a look. Downstairs in the venerable Lauriat’s bookstore he picked his way through an enormous cache of the Indian work of Edward S. Curtis. The owner, Charles E. Lauriat Jr., had survived the si...
Verdict IN AN AGE when people who ran the country thought the great rivers of America could be plugged to create a green promised land in the Pacific Northwest and electrify the Tennessee Valley, Hugh Bennett was encouraged to think big and think epic. When he returned to Washington after the Dus...
Spaghetti Westerners MORE THAN 5,000 MILES from the fires of the northern Rockies, a mother in the village of Rivara Canavese opened a letter from her son in the faraway American West. Domenico Bruno had left Italy with his friend Giacomo Viettone to find work in the United States. Every few mont...