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In GRIT AND GHOSTS, Robin Foster "properly recognizes that history is storytelling, and she’s very good about weaving her own experiences into the lives of her subjects without seeking undue attention or shifting focus away from them," writes Kirkus Reviews.

GRIT AND GHOSTS | Kirkus Reviews A historian traverses favorite spots on the American landscape, finding inspirational stories of women who thought nothing of accepting a good challenge.

Now until 10:45 am, Sonja Trom Earys, author of DODGE COUNTY, joins a panel at the Harkin Institute's Industrial Farm Animal Production, the Environment, and Public Health conference.

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September 25 & 26 | Industrial Farm Animal Production, the Environment, and Public Health | The Harkin Institute September 25 & 26 | Industrial Farm Animal Production, the Environment, and Public Health All Events, Institute News, Wellness and Nutrition, Wellness and Nutrition Event Information Date: September 25 & 26, 2024 Time: 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. CT Location: Parents Hall, Olmsted Center at Drake Univer...

"Charpentier weaves an intimate and compelling memoir of his friendship with one of his students, Maurice Prairie Chief, and the anguish of coping with his premature death," writes Montana the Magazine of THE BOY WHO PROMISED ME HORSES.

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Eva-Maria Maggi, co-author of HUSH OF THE LAND, reflects on 60 years of the Wilderness Act on the Hush of the Land blog.

Worthy Wilderness Honoring the Wilderness Act at 60, a virtual event, reviews and more!

"An indignant, righteously wrathful defense of the family farm in the face of corporate voracity," writes Kirkus Reviews of DODGE COUNTY, INCORPORATED by Sonja Trom Eayrs, Author.

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Join Sid Sibo, author of THE SCENT OF DISTANT FAMILY, and Rob Carney for "Rewriting the West", a reading and conversation at The King's English Bookshop in Salt Lake City, Utah. The event is next week on Tuesday, September 24 at 6 PM.

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Rewriting the West: Rob Carney & sid sibo Matching books to readers since 1977.

Join Jeff Barnes next Wednesday for a discussion about FORTS OF THE NORTHERN PLAINS at Francie & Finch Bookshop. The event will run from 5:30-6:30 CDT. Hope to see you there!

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HUSH OF THE LAND by Smoke Elser is "a beautifully written book" and "every chapter is an engaging read," writes Hungry Horse News.

Book Review: ‘Hush of the Land’ a wilderness original I looked down at the book and it was all sticky. The tea in the cup had spilled in the pickup truck and the honey in the bottom was all over the cover.

Celia, 22, and Eliza, 20, escaped slavery in Nebraska City in late November of 1858, as Gail Shaffer Blankenau - Author details in her book JOURNEY TO FREEDOM.

Blankenau joins KMTV 3 News Now to discuss how the book came to be.

How two slaves, sisters, from Nebraska City challenged the political and territorial systems Celia, 22, and Eliza, 20, escaped in late November of 1858, as Gail Shaffer Blankenau details in the book Journey to Freedom: Uncovering the Grayson Sisters' Escape from Nebraska Territory.

"Rooted in the intimate experiences of Sonja Trom Eayrs’s farming family, DODGE COUNTY, INC. is a powerful manifesto against the excesses of factory farming," writes Foreword Reviews about Sonja Trom Eayrs, Author's book.

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"Carol Bradley’s TWISTING IN AIR...investigates the roles of the cowboy, horse trainer and movie horses on the growth of the film industry and the stunt training and protection of horses in filmmaking," writes True West Magazine.

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Arnold "Smoke" Elser and Eva-Maria Maggi, authors of HUSH OF THE LAND, were featured in the Flathead Beacon.

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Join Sid Sibo, author of THE SCENT OF DISTANT FAMILY, for a book signing with Laura Pritchett at Old Firehouse Books in Fort Collins, CO. The event is tomorrow, September 3 from 6-7 PM!

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Join Smoke Elser and Eva-Maria Maggi for an evening of campfire storytelling on the 60th anniversary of the Wilderness Act on September 3.

They will share tales from HUSH OF THE LAND which chronicles the six-decade quest of packer and outfitter Arnold “Smoke” Elser to protect wild lands by bringing thousands of people deep into the mountains of Montana on horseback.

"THINK OF HORSES — the novel — is as satisfyingly enjoyable as 'think of horses'— the advice — is sound," writes Big Sky Journal of Mary Clearman Blew's novel.

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Books: Reading the West - Big Sky Journal In Headwaters: The Adventures, Obsession, and Evolution of a Fly Fisherman (Patagonia, $27.95), Dylan Tomine casts a line into his life of angling adventures with vivid detail, political and environmental astuteness, and wonderfully infectious humor. The narratives collected here take the reader all...

C. Thomas Shay, author of UNDER PRAIRIE SKIES shares "The best books honoring our precious prairies" on Shepherd.com.

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"It is no easy task to write a full scope examination of the Great Plains Black homesteading experience...Edwards and Friefeld are to be commended for their efforts to accomplish this monumental task and to do so while making it accessible to a general audience," writes Dwain Coleman for the Southern Historical Association / Journal of Southern History.

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Robert Aquinas McNally, author of CAST OUT OF EDEN, joins Journeys of Discovery with Tom Wilmer to discuss the dark side of John Muir's legacy.

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Cast Out of Eden--John Muir’s dark side revealed Author Robert Aquinas McNalley shares tales of John Muir and his racist attitudes in his new book, Cast out of Eden

In FORTS OF THE NORTHERN PLAINS Jeff Barnes, Author/Speaker presents an informative guidebook to the forts of the Indian campaigns of the late nineteenth century.

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Maura Jane Farrelly "demonstrates her skill as a persistent researcher and historian," writes J. Kemper Campbell in the Lincoln Journal Star. "The stories she pieced together are both convoluted and mesmerizing."

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Book review: A tragic tale on the Gilded Age frontier “Compliments of Hamilton and Sargent: A Story of Mystery and Tragedy on the Gilded Age Frontier” by Maura Jane Farrelly, Bison Books, 482 pages, $29.95 (Paperback).

We're excited to share that AN ENDANGERED SPECIES by Frances Washburn was featured in Ms Magazine's July 2024 Reads for the Rest of Us.

"[It is] an exquisitely written story of two families struggling to survive," Karla J. Strand writes.

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July 2024 Reads for the Rest of Us - Ms. Magazine The best feminist books written by women, Black, brown, AAPI, LGBTQ, Native, disabled, trans, nonbinary writers in July 2024.

Rebecca M. Valette's CLITSO DEDMAN, NAVAJO CARVER was featured in the Top 75 Community College Titles from the June 2024 issue of Choice Reviews!

Valette's book is the first biography of artist and carver Clitso Dedman, one of the most important but overlooked Navajo artists of his generation.

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"There are many books that claim to take a deep dive into Western mythology but this one delivers the goods," WALLACE STEGNER'S UNSETTLED COUNTRY is "likely to stir conversation and debate," writes the Yellowstonian in a review and interview with editor Mark Fiege.

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This weekend, join a craft talk with sid sibo, author of THE SCENT OF DISTANT FAMILY (forthcoming Sept 2024). Hosted by Jackson Hole Writers.

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Brent M. Rogers highlights two pillars of the American West—William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody and the Mormons—to better understand cultural and political perceptions, image-making, and performance in the 1840s through the early 1900s.

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