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"I have a family that seems infinite, a collage that has no borders, that is always growing to capacitate more. When I went to Alaska, my collage quadrupled in size. Every time my mother or father brought someone or something home the walls stretched; our universe expanded. So I register with the central adoption computer; I place my being in a microchip and wait for a match. Not so my life will somehow become magically complete, but simply to allow for the possibility of reconnection, of closing circles, of spanning the bridge between wandering broods."

This haunting and profound memoir seeks to define so many dimensions of the human drama-adoption, motherhood, alcoholism, childhood, death, separation-and it does so with a poetic quality that will make you remember this story long after you finish the book. Author Colin Chisholm's provocative exploration into the life of his mother, Doris, begins with her youth in a small Eskimo village, where she lived until her Yup'ik mother died and she was adopted by a Swedish family near Seattle. While growing up, she struggled with her mixed ethnicity, denying her origins until late in life, when poor health prevented her return to Alaska.

In his efforts to understand his mother's life, Chisholm also explores the complex issues of adoption. After giving birth to two children, Doris adopted three more, including the author himself. Writing with a maturity and self-awareness that is rare, author Colin Chisholm has a breathtaking sense of fairness, compassion, and deep interest in his subject.

Born in 1967, Colin Chisholm lived in California's Sierra Nevada mountains until he was eighteen. He received an MFA in creative writing from the University of Montana, has published stories and essays in numerous magazines and journals, and was a finalist for the National Magazine Award in 1995. THROUGH YUP'IK EYES is his first book. He divides his time between Prescott, Arizona, and Missoula, Montana. ... Read more

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A Ground-Breaking Work
Colin Chisholm's Through Yup'ik Eyes is a truly remarkable and ground-breaking work.

The subject of Mr. Chisholm's book is his mother, and his love and respect for her shine through on every single page of this hauntingly written book. The fact that he devoted several years to his quest to learn about his mother's past is itself a remarkable undertaking. What he produced as a result of his travels and studies is a compelling look at a woman who wanted desperately to go "home," but was unable to do so. What makes Through Yup'ik Eyes so truly inspiring is that Mr. Chisholm did in fact find a way to take his mother home. Through his efforts, she was posthumously reunited with her relatives after so many painful years of being away.

We live in a changing world, and not the least of the changes are the new ways we are finding to define our identities. Mr. Chisholm succeeded in returning his mother to her beloved Alaska, but he also made a big stride in offering a definition of family. Rather than painting an entire group of people with one brush, what Mr. Chisholm offers is a deeply moving picture of one woman and her relationship to her son.

From Yup'ik Eyes
A humbling, chilling, sensitive, compassionate portrayal of a love toward a mother, and the search for the identity of a silent history, is truly extracted by the author about his experience as a child of a mother whom he wants strongly to understand.

To create a story about a culture one only has glimpses of as one is growing up because of some silence or resistence that brought the parent to carry is, in and of itself, a very difficult task to bear. Colin Chisholm in blending reality and fiction into a heart-felt document, unfolds the silent stories of many children who, like his mother, were taken away during the tuberculosis and influenza epidemic that killed so many of the Yup'ik Eskimo people at the turn of the 2oth century. In one sense Colin's mother was fortunate to be able to live; whereas so many people such as my grandparents, were not -- who knew and possibly saw Mrs. Chisholm being taken away at such a tender age, never to be seen again. A sensitive topic written with respect about a culture the author only knows a little of is truly an honorable effort. I commend Mr. Chisholm in telling part of my Yup'ik history in a way that brings out the love, the struggles, and the determination to survive that Yup'ik people faced, and continue to face.

How brave and honorable it is to learn that Colin is able to track down the side of his family he doesn't know, and in a culture that is seldom recognized or heard of. The yearning for meaning about family and the love for a mother whom Colin Chisholm pursued ends up in a stronger family relationship. Colin's mother would be so proud of a son that bravely conquered family ties. ... Read more

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A major new biography of the Bourn family--one of SanFrancisco's most influential families. ... Read more

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Editing would help.
In his biography of William Bourn I and William Bourn II the author consistantly drifts from the topic.

A prime example is even though William Bourn is in Monte Carlo during the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, Egan adds to his description of the events in San Francisco the following sentence: "Even after the devestation of an earthquake that would have measured somewhere about 8.25 on the Richter Scale-to be developed in later years by Charles F. Richter of the Claifornia Institute of Technology..."

Unfortunately this quote is not exceptional. If the author stayed with his topic the information Eagan unearthed on this important California family would require half the pages.

Ferol Egan's "Last Bonanza Kings" is a book sorely in need of an editor. ... Read more

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Margaret Elley Felt's autobiographical Gyppo Logger, originally published in 1963, tells a story almost universally overlooked in the history of the logging industry: the emergence of family-based, independent contract or "gyppo" loggers in the post-World War II timber economy, and the crucial role of women within that economy. For seven years Margaret Felt was her husband's partner in their logging business--driving truck, keeping the wage rolls, and jawboning her way into more credit at the supply stores. "Gyppo Logger demonstrates how gyppo wives remade the formerly masculine terrain of logging through their unpaid but vital economic activities in both private and public forums. And it was, arguably, the success of these family businesses that facilitated the dramatic and rapid physical redesign of Northwest forests"-- Robert E. Walls ... Read more

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The rollicking story of the Leadville waitress who reached the top of Newport society—and a permanent place in American lore—as a heroine of the Titanic disaster. Miss Bancroft’s biography gives the true story of the unsinkable lady from Colorado and makes an amusing contrast with the legend. ... Read more

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Many influential visitors have written about Alaska, among them John Muir, John McPhee, and James Michener. In OUR ALASKA, award-winning writer and editor Mike Doogan forges an eclectic collection of stories both charmingly simple and thoughtfully profound, from a variety of Alaskan writers. These are real stories: among them tales of the solitude of Lake Minchumina; growing up aboard a fishing trawler; being a "tourist herder" near Nome; the rich, powerful meaning of the Koyukon Indian "Hutlani" code; a black man's fateful decision to pass up a lucrative job in Washington, D.C., in favor of what Alaska offered his family; a woman's emotional memories of flying to Juneau to see her father after her parents' divorce; the notion that riding the state ferries in Southeast may be the "calmest form of public transportation in the U.S."; an activist's view of how Alaska came to grips with its oil development; and the importance of berry-picking to a city dweller. ... Read more

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Longing for a home in big, wild country that would keep them passionate and young, Jonathan Johnson and his wife, Amy, set out to build a log cabin on his family's land in a remote and beautiful corner of Idaho. But what began as a doable dream for the two of them suddenly looks quite different when, on their first morning in the cabin-without electricity, a telephone, running water, or real windows-the couple learn that Amy is pregnant.

In this lyrical and intimate chronicle of making a home the hard way, Johnson describes the competing joys and anxieties of preparing for fatherhood in a setting as challenging as it is promising: a paradise of mythic snowfalls and warming wood stoves and elk tracks at the front door, but also a place where vision, and even struggle and compromise, are not always enough. Hannah and the Mountain tells a rare and delicate story of two people exploring the unmapped territories of loss and grief and finding solace and grace in the mountains. It offers the reader an unforgettable portrait of a couple growing up, learning nature's hard and beautiful lessons, and discovering a love of place and each other strong and wild enough to renew them and be carried into the future.

Jonathan Johnson is an assistant professor at the Inland Northwest Center for Writers, the graduate writing program at Eastern Washington University. His work has appeared in various literary magazines and in The Best American Poetry. He is the author of Mastodon, 80% Complete, a book of poems. ... Read more

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Beautiful, Insightful, Moving Memoir
I am a former student of Jonathan's...in fact, I am one of the students who sat on the lawns of the Western PA College during his Nature in Lit class that he mentions in the book. That was six years ago and I have been a fan of his work ever since.

This memoir is beautifuly crafted as only a poet-turned-prose writer could do.He weaves the story of building his home, following his dreams, and starting a family in a touching and compelling fashion. The reader relates to the joy and hope of the young couple and feel their pain in times of trouble.This is not a memoir that serves to glorify the life of the author, but rather, it serves as a connection to each of us who are in pursuit of identity (be it individual or family or whatever else)and who are all on the journey through life.

This is a beautiful work.I have never cried so hard over the pages of a book before. Johnson has been couragous and honest in his prose which makes it such an inspiring read. ... Read more

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A Look At Rodeo from the Inside!
If you've ever watched a bull rider desperately hang on to the back of a bull till the buzzer sounds or shaken your head in amazement as a cowboy picks himself off the ground after being tossed around like a rag doll, this book will tell you why they do it.

In his own words, Champion Bull Rider Abe Morris recounts the story of his rodeo career fromthe beginning as a boy in New Jersey at the Cowtown Rodeo through his time at the University of Wyoming and follows the triumphs and disappointments of competing around the country as one of the very few black rodeo cowboys. This is a story of good friends, tragic losses, prejudicial judges, career threatening injuries and the ever present recalcitrant bulls which never fail to make a lasting impression.

Abe's story is an inside look at the sport of rodeo and the men who pursue it, written by a man who knows what it means to lose but who has also experienced the exhilaration of those championship wins. ... Read more

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A book about incidents occurring to a Highway Patrol officer during approximately 30 years of traffic law enforcement while following "The Broken Center?line" around and over highways and freeways in different parts of our great state of California.This is somewhat like following the yellow brick road through the Land of OZ. ... Read more

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"Masterful"
The acclaimed British wine writer Hugh Johnson once wrote: "No novelist could have invented Haraszthy.There is a surprise around every corner of his life-and how many lives have had so many corners?"

In Strong Wine: The Life and Legend of Agoston Haraszthy, Brian McGinty explores, analyzes, and describes every "corner" of Agoston Haraszthy's remarkable life, taking readers on fascinating excursions into the history of Habsburg Hungary, Jacksonian America, Gold Rush California, and post-Civil War Central America.It is an absorbing story, and an important one, too, for Haraszthy made real contributions to the development of agriculture in California during the almost twenty years (1849-1868)he lived and worked there.

As history professor William K. Crowley attests in his review of this book, "McGinty comes through as the true authority on Haraszthy, provides the peruser a well written read and substantiates the claims of Haraszthy as the `Father of Californian Viticulture'.His meticulous footnotes and mountainous bibliography lend testimony to his scholarship."

In his review, John Wills of the University of Bristol calls Strong Wine "an impressive biography."P. D. Travis of Texas Women's University calls it "a wonderful book for agricultural, ethnic, and western historians, and for those with interests in Americana."Bernard Demczuk of George Washington University describes it as "masterful."Jacob Vander Meulen of Canada's Dalhousie University says it is "fluid and engaging."Robert J. Chandler, of the Historical Services of Wells Fargo Bank, says it is an "ably written, well-researched study."And Richard Steven Street, author of Beasts of the Field: A Narrative History of California Farm Workers (2004), labels it "the finest biography of any California agriculture figure."

Recommended!

Great research, a bit tedious
This is a book that often manages to take a colorful and fascinating life and reduce it to the tedium of everyday minutiae. Still,the research is great,the issues addressed are interesting. It is worth reading, though it may put you to sleep at times.There are certainly large portions that will be of interest to no one but a descendant (as the author is), and the prose is dense and not conducive to page-turning at times. You'll wade through this if you're a real geek--but not otherwise. ... Read more

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In August 1906, Chauncey Canfield committed to his publisher a found text: the diary, ostensibly verified, of one Alfred T. Jackson, a pioneer miner who joined the Gold Rush from his home in Norfolk, Connecticut, migrating to Rock Creek, Nevada County, California, where he cabined and worked. The Diary covers two years of Jackson's life, and provides us with one of the richest documents of a period of perhaps unequaled importance to the expansion of the United States. ... Read more

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What it was really like
If you have ever wondered what it might be like to have lived "back then" then this is the book for you. A first hand look at the day to day life of a 49er as he lived it. Not a dry history book but filled with personality and adventure. I have read many diarys and books of the old west and this is one of the best.

primary yet not dry history
A great read for anyone interested in the social environment of the 49er. Turns popular misconceptions upside down about the barbarity of these Gold Rushers--they actually were quite civilized.

Excellent
An antidote for all the revisionist history that's come out in the last 20 years. An actual account of a man's day to day life in the 1850's written as it happened. It gives you a good idea of what people were like back then.

AN ILLUMINATING ACCOUNT
A VERY INTERESTING FIRST PERSON ACCOUNT--STRESS FIRST PERSON. NOT A DERIVATITVE BOOK OF THOSE TIMES AS ARE SO MANY OTHERS. BOTTOM LINE, IT COULD VERY WELL BE THE BEST LOOK AT WHAT IT WAS REALLY LIKE IN THE GOLD FIELDS AROUND, NEVADA CITY---GRASS VALLEY, CALIF, IN 1850 THAT YOU COULD FIND.

A sleeper--gold fever and personal growth
Gold fever! This diary portrays one man's passage through the turbulent gold rush. From small farmer just wanting to return home with enough money to marry his sweetheart to a man aware of all the world has to offer. A journey of personal growth. Wonderful. ... Read more

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Baby Doe Tabor’s love affair with Horace Tabor caused a sensational triangle and national scandal in the 1880s. ... Read more

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A Rags to Riches to Rags
This book leaves the reader yearning for more detail about some of the other real life characters such as HAW Tabor and his first wife, Augusta. The life of Baby Doe spanned an incredible point in Colorado history andleft me searching for more history on the rise and fall of Leadville,Colorado. The book is not long on detail but it is an excellent startingpoint for further readings.

Truth more fascinating than fiction!
This is a short read, but so interesting! Baby Doe Tabor's life story is something right out of a soap opera. What an incredible life she had. I sat down and read it at one sitting - each page has so many fascinatinghistorical and dramatic elements. I agree with the previous reviewer - thiswould make for a fantastic movie (there was an earlier rather fictionalizedone mentioned in this book). Drama, romance, passion, revenge,murder...it's all here and all true!

Unbelievable true story of a fascinating era!
The story involves love, adultery, incredible wealth, scandal- all in the beautiful Rockies. The book will have you hungry for more information about this fascinating woman. Her beauty took her from poverty in the dirtymining town of Leadville to Washington,DC where the President attended herscandalous and much talked about second wedding! She became one of thewealtheast women in the country spending sinful amounts of money.Greatphotos show her beauty.Would make a great movie. Drew Barrymore could playthe part! There is a remarkable resemblence.The writing is unsophisticatedbut will keep your interest.

Colorful biography of a Colorado lady
After my first visit to the mountains of Colorado, I became fascinated by the legends of the women of the area. Leadville, Colorado is home to "The Unsinkable Molly Brown", of Titanic fame, and of the lesser known, but very interesting Baby Doe Tabor. Ms. Tabor was born in Wisconsin and travelled to Colorado with her first husband during the silver rush. After her husband abandoned her, she took her fate into her own hands -- in at brave and pretty respectable way for a lady of the era -- and what happens after that has become legend. Ms. Bancroft's book is an interesting, if subjective, portrayal of Baby Doe Tabor. Much of her material is taken from interviews obtained by a local woman who met with Baby Doe in her later years in Leadville, so the material may seem a bit biased. But, Baby Doe's take on the events of her life are fascinating. I will look into some of the books and places that are mentioned in the book to round out my understanding of this fascinating woman. I can't wait to travel back to Colorado and visit the sites of Baby Doe's life again. ... Read more

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Sex is for sale 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, in Nevada's legal brothels.Former madam Lora Shaner takes you into the parlor- and bedrooms- of Sheri's Ranch, in this compelling account of the sex-for-money culture.

You'll read about Mary Clair, the nun turned prostitute; Ellen the errant wife; Coral and Millie, the happy-hooker tag team; and Alice, the pro with the heart of gold; as well as the turn outs, part-timers, sex addicts, and adventure-seekers, and other ladies of the house.

You'll also meet the cathouse clientele: Lester the rodeo rider, who liked to warm up by playing horsey; Mr. Yamaura, who paid thousands for three minutes of pleasure; and Golf Guy, who employed Sheri's girls to help him perfect his stroke; as well as the hunks, nerds, pimps, cheapos,professional athletes, and other customers who ring the brothel doorbell at all hours.

Madam's piercing character studies and poignant sketches of day-to-day life in a legal brothel strip bare the myths about the world's oldest profession, revealing the hearts and soul of the women who sell sex-and the men who buy it.

Before moving to Pahrump, Nevada, and taking a job at Sheri's Ranch as a full-time madam, Lora Shaner worked as a civilian public information officer for the Department of Defense in El Paso and San Francisco.Now retired from the brothel life, Shaner owns and operates a small public relations and advertising business. ... Read more

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I read it twice; can't wait to read it again..Exceptional!
It's a fasinating, very well-written book. Each story (about the ladies) describes what goes on behind the bedroom doors of a legal brothel (Wow, and I thought I was imaginative!) Reading this book, I laughed out-loud; I cried; I became angry; I was astonished; and after the last page was read, I was sad there weren't any more. What a wonderful experience. The writing style is nothing short of brilliant and made me feel like a Peeping Tom (and boy did I learn a lot!).

A Page-Turner!
"MADAM" is by far the best book written about legal prostitution by someone who walked the walk and talked the talk. Actually, it's the best book I've ever read on the entire subject of prostitution because it's not a dreary social commentary written by a sociologist. It's a snappy sizzler of a read. Shaner doesn't mince words. She tells a hell of a story about the girls and their guys-of-the-moment. Everyone should read this book. It's funny, it's sad, it's informative, it's easy to read and still manages to be very, very intelligent.

I am not Lora Shaner's daughter
but she is someone I would like to meet. If you want to know what it is like to work in a brothel, this is the book for you. You get an honest and even handed look at the girls (to include their persnalities and motivations), the Johns, the job, and the business of legal prostitution. It was a good and entertaining read to boot. The only thing wrong with it, was it was too short!

A MUST Read!
My 84 year-old mother has been anti-prostitution from the time she found out "the disgusting things" prostitues do. She wouldn't allow the term spoken in her presence even in terms of a social problem.

After I read this book, I literally forced my mother to read it by thrusting the book into her hands and nagging at her constantly until she read it to make me stop annoying her. She devoured it cover to cover, then said "I've been wrong all these years. I didn't have the right to judge these women without knowing anything about them."

This book is a revelation. Congratulations to the author and to the thousands of people enlightened and moved by this marvelously executed work.

You will laugh then cry!
If you have ever been curious about legal prostitution read this book. I felt as I was on the inside looking in as I read the stories of the girls, the good times , the bad times, but always the "family" times. A definate read. ... Read more

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Using two cross-country trips on Amtrak as her narrative vehicles, British writer Jenny Diski connects the humming rails, taking her into the heart of America with the track-like scars leading back to her own past. As in the highly acclaimed Skating to Antarctica, Diski has created a seamless and seemingly effortless amalgam of reflections and revelation in a unique combination of travelogue and memoir.
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Very poor ¿ not a great Travel Book
This is the first book I've read by Jenni Diski, and I'm told it's not typical of her work. Certainly this was disappointing. It's not a conventional travelogue; in fact after 70 pages (25% of the book) she still hadn't got on the train!

Throughout she shows a brief insight into the personality of a dozen fellow passengers, but spends more time describing her problems gasping for a cigarette - hasn't she heard of nicotine patches?

In 8 lines (lines, not pages) she dismisses the whole journey from Portland Oregon to Sacramento to Denver to Albuquerque - and she doesn't even mention Nevada & Utah. Was she asleep the whole time? Then Arizona to New York via New Orleans vanishes in a dozen pages with 2 anecdotes. Was she bored? I'm surprised this won the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award?

I love travelling around America, but anyone could make it more exciting than this.

great trip
Jenny Diski clearly had a great trip and this book proves how even a 'non-traveler' can easily fall beneath the spell of long-distance train travel. Anyone planning to follow her example and journey around North America by train should also get hold of the excellent USA by Rail guidebook by John Pitt.

Is this a travel book or a memoir?
Subtitle to this book is "daydreaming and smoking around America with interruptions." The author travels by freighter from England to the U.S., then around the edges of the U.S. by train. She talks to people and records their conversations, most of which take place in the trains' smoking sections. None of them are particularly interesting. I read the whole book, but found it narcisistic (she admits she's a narcisist) full of tales about her days in English mental institutions, and not that entertaining. PLUS: get her an editor - please. It's Willie Mays, not Willie May. It's St.Paul-Minneapolis, not St. Paul's-Minneapolis. And the Mississippi river is certainly not in North Dakota. Then there are the English usages. What are pilchards? What is a tannoy? One person she meets says what he'd like to do with his life is "mess about on boats." No American would say that. If you want to read a good travel book, stick to Paul Theroux. If you want an interesting memoir look elsewhere. ... Read more

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Red Steagall's weekly radio program, Cowboy Corner, has been on the air for more than ten years and is carried on 175 radiostations across the country.

A major feature of each show is Red's interview with his guest that week. They talk about the West, about cowboys, about horses, about history. It is always a conversation between friends who share mutual interests and mutual acquaintances, and in the course of these conversations the listener learns about Western heritage, Western traditions, and Western values.

With the assistance of editor Loretta Fulton, Red has compiled the conversations with twenty-one of his friends into a unique book that captures the flavor of the Western way of life.

Included are interviews with notable Western figures Roy Rogers, Rex Allen, Reba McEntire, Richard Farnsworth, Jim Shoulders, Roy Clark, John Justin, Elmer Kelton, Wilford Brimley, Joaquin Jackson, Buck Taylor, and many more. Their stories about early days in movies, ranching, law enforcement, music, writing, and other endeavors create an important oral history of life in the West. ... Read more

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In a memoir overflowing with humor, excitement, and a sense of "being there" formajor events, reporter Stanton H. Patty reflects on a fifty-year career coveringheroic, larger-than-life characters and the roles they played in the history ofAlaska and the Yukon. Patty recounts the struggles of Alaska's Native people to win their rightfulland claims, goes whaling with Eskimo friends, and flies with daring Bushpilots-his boyhood heroes. This son of pioneer Alaskans also tells of a boy'slife in rough-and-tumble gold camps along the Yukon River. He salutes women ofthe north country-"unstoppable," he calls them-who mushed dog teams, survivedthe brutality of World War II in the Aleutian Islands, and made comfortablehomes on a challenging frontier. He documents the Good Friday earthquake thatjolted Alaska in 1964. He meets the one and only Klondike Kate, Charles A.Lindbergh, and other notables. ... Read more

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William Kittredge, the distinguished writer of the American West, revisits the ranch life of his youth, set in the remote Warner Valley, "a hidden world" in which "landlocked waters flow from snowy mountains to the west but don't find a way out to the sea." In that rugged landscape, won by violence against both humankind and nature, Kittredge's family constructed myths, stories of how they came to be in that faraway place. Through those stories, he learned that accepted notions of patriotism and loyalty were less important than the values of community and generosity, and that, as Emerson observed, "Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind."

Kittredge turns from personal memoir to a consideration of a subject to which he has devoted much time since the 1960s: the reigning myths of the American West, myths of rugged individualism in a land governed by corporations, myths of wide-open spaces in a region ravaged by the economy of extraction. Against those myths he poses the West's realities, and what he finds is not comforting: Kittredge offers an antitextbook history, a narrative in which "endless ruination was visited on the land, indigenous people were left to lives of impossible poverty, and the money and power went off to the East."

Kittredge's essay seamlessly joins environmental polemic, history, literature, and autobiography to offer an ultimately hopeful view of a troubled region in search of itself. Editor Scott Slovic, a scholar of Western American and environmental literature, adds to it a bibliography of Kittredge's published work. --Gregory McNamee ... Read more

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More Kitteredge, please
I love Bill Kitteredge as a storyteller, thinker, and even as a prophet. His vision of how story informs ethics is among the most sane approaches I've read, both to the art and role of storytelling and to ethics itself. His applicaton of his ethos to life in the West is sage. I've read Kitteredge's previous books and this book, *Taking Care* is a well-wrought distillation of Kittredge's former books with some fine tuning.

I rate this book as I do because just over half the book is Kittredge's writing. The rest is an essay by Scott Slovic which reviews Kittredge and covers too much of the same ground I just read in Kittredge's own writing, followed by a helpful and comprehensive bibliography. Slovic does good work. But, I wanted more Kittredge.

I have one last complaint: the book is published as a *Credo* book, apparently part of a series. But, I'm not sure. Nowhere does this book say anything about other writers contributing to the series, whether in the past or the future. I would be excited to read other writers' credos, especially if they were writers I was unfamiliar with. But, if I were familiar with the writer and if the Credo book were like this one, a revisit to previously published stories and ideas, then I wouldn't buy it. ... Read more