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10 best books like Hole in the Sky: A Memoir (William Kittredge): Going Back to Bisbee, Fencing the Sky: A Novel, The Sound of Mountain Water, The Great Plains, This House of Sky: Landscapes of a Western Mind, Lazy B: Growing Up on a Cattle Ranch in the American Southwest, A Son of the Middle Border, Where Rivers Change Direction, Thuggin In Miami (The Family Is Made : Part 1), Claiming Ground

Going Back to Bisbee
AuthorRichard Shelton
ISBN0816512892
One of America's most distinguished poets now shares his fascination with a distinctive corner of our country. Richard Shelton first came to southeastern Arizona in the 1950s as a soldier stationed at Fort Huachuca. He soon fell in love with the region and upon his discharge found a job as a schoolteacher...
Fencing the Sky: A Novel
AuthorJames Galvin
ISBN0312267347
From critically acclaimed author of The Meadow comes a haunting novel of the American West.

Circumstances spiral out of control when an accidental murder springs from the best intentions. With one man dead and another on the run, this is a story about violence and how it destroys lives when...
The Sound of Mountain Water
AuthorWallace Stegner
ISBN0140266747
A book of timeless importance about the American West, our "native home of hope."

The essays, memoirs, letters, and speeches in this volume were written over a period of twenty-five years, a time in which the West witnessed rapid changes to its cultural and natural heritage, and Wallace Stegner...
The Great Plains
AuthorWalter Prescott Webb
ISBN0803297025
This classic description of the interaction between the vast central plains of America and the people who lived there has, since its first publication in 1931, been one of the most influential, widely known, and controversial works in western history. Arguing that "the Great Plains environment....
This House of Sky: Landscapes of a Western Mind
AuthorIvan Doig
ISBN0156899825
Ivan Doig grew up in the rugged wilderness of western Montana among the sheepherders and denizens of small-town saloons and valley ranches. What he deciphers from his past with piercing clarity is not only a raw sense of land and how it shapes us but also of the ties to our mothers and fathers, to those who...
Lazy B: Growing Up on a Cattle Ranch in the American Southwest
AuthorSandra Day O'Connor
ISBN0679643443
Now, for the first time in paperback, here is the remarkable story of Sandra Day O’Connor’s family and early life, her journey to adulthood in the American Southwest that helped make her the woman she is today—the first female justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, and one of the most powerful women...
A Son of the Middle Border
AuthorHamlin Garland
A classic of American realism, A Son of the Middle Border (1917) is the true coming-of-age odyssey of a farm boy who—informed by the full brute force of a homesteaders’ life on the vast unbroken prairie—would become a preeminent American writer of the early twentieth century. Pulitzer Prize–winner...
Where Rivers Change Direction
AuthorMark Spragg
ISBN1573228257
It is a voice that echoes off canyon walls, springs from the rush of rivers, thunders from the hooves of horses. It belongs to award-winner Mark Spragg, and it's as passionate and umcompromising as the wilderness in northwest Wyoming in which he was born: the largest block of unfenced wilderness in...
Thuggin In Miami (The Family Is Made : Part 1)
AuthorR.A. Robinson
ISBN0985399538
After the death of his father, Rich Kid takes his destructive, malicious, and loyal team of hustlers, known amongst them-selves as The Family, to the next level of thuggin. Using his relationships within the drug distribution realm, Richard catapults his growing empire, taking down anyone who stands...
Claiming Ground
AuthorLaura Bell
ISBN0307272885
In 1977, Laura Bell, at loose ends after graduating from college, leaves her family home in Kentucky for a wild and unexpected adventure: herding sheep in Wyoming’s Big Horn Basin. Inexorably drawn to this life of solitude and physical toil, a young woman in a man’s world, she is perhaps the strangest...
Field Notes: The Grace Note of the Canyon Wren
AuthorBarry Lopez
ISBN1400075122
In this collection of twelve stories, Barry Lopez—the National Book Award–winning author of Arctic Dreams and one of our most admired writers—evokes the longing we feel for beauty in our relationships with one another, with the past, and with nature.

An anthropologist traveling...
Indian Creek Chronicles: A Winter Alone in the Wilderness
AuthorPete Fromm
ISBN0312422725
Winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Book Award, Indian Creek Chronicles is Pete Fromm's account of seven winter months spent alone in a tent in Idaho guarding salmon eggs and coming face to face with the blunt realities of life as a contemporary mountain man. A gripping story of...
One Life at a Time, Please
AuthorEdward Abbey
ISBN0805006036
The book is divided into four parts: Politics, Travel, Books and Art and Nature Love (just one short bit on predator hunting calls and littering).

The Politics section is as expected: deep insights into Abbey's anarchic views, some founded in legitimate reason, others in a bit of selfish or...
A River Running West: The Life of John Wesley Powell
AuthorDonald Worster
ISBN0195156358
If the word "hero" still belonged in the historian's lexicon, it would certainly be applied to John Wesley Powell. Intrepid explorer, careful scientist, talented writer, and dedicated conservationist, Powell led the expedition that put the Colorado River on American maps and revealed the Grand...
Winter: Notes from Montana
AuthorRick Bass
ISBN0395611504
They were seeking a place to winter in the West, a secluded retreat where he could write and she could paint. Bass and his friend Elizabeth discovered the Yaak valley in northwest Montana. It was remote -- with no electricity or phone service, only erratic radio reception, and reachable by a gravel-and-dirt...
Riding the White Horse Home: A Western Family Album
AuthorTeresa Jordan
ISBN0679751351
"Riding the White Horse Home: A Western Family Album," published in 1993, is part memoir and part family history and it succeeds on both levels. It is an impressionistic account and not a straight chronological narrative, but the pieces all fall into place by the time the reader arrives at the last page....
Breaking Clean
AuthorJudy Blunt
ISBN0375701303
Blunt has turned the memories of her childhood and young adulthood in rural Montana into a beautifully written memoir that is a meditation on how land and her life will always be intertwined. A must read.

Born into a third generation of Montana homesteaders, Judy Blunt learned early how to "rope...
A Match to the Heart: One Woman's Story of Being Struck By Lightning
AuthorGretel Ehrlich
ISBN0140179372
A powerful chronicle of a wounded woman’s exploration of nature and self

After nature writer Gretel Ehrlich was struck by lightning near her Wyoming ranch and almost died, she embarked on a painstaking and visionary journey back to the land of the living. With the help of an extraordinary...
In the Land of the Grasshopper Song: Two Women in the Klamath River Indian Country in 1908-09
AuthorMary Ellicott Arnold
ISBN0803267037
In 1908 two young women—the authors of this book—accepted Indian Service appointments as field matrons for the Karok Indians in the Klamath and Salmon River country of northern California. Although the area had been the scene of a gold rush some fifty years earlier, they write in the foreword,...
It's Your Misfortune and None of My Own: A New History of the American West
AuthorRichard White
ISBN0806125675
A centerpiece of the New History of the American West, this book embodies the theme that, as succeeding groups have occupied the American West and shaped the land, they have done so without regard for present inhabitants. Like the cowboy herding the dogies, they have cared little about the cost their...
Alida's Song
AuthorGary Paulsen
ISBN0440414741
A remarkable novel about one of the most important, and loving, relationships in Gary Paulsen's life.

The wonderful grandmother seen through the eyes of a young boy in The Cookcamp reaches out to him at 14, offering him a haven from his harsh and painful family life. She arranges a summer job...
Lasso the Wind: Away to the New West
AuthorTimothy Egan
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year

Winner of the Mountains and Plains Book Seller's Association Award

"Sprawling in scope. . . . Mr. Egan uses the past powerfully to explain and give dimension to the present." --The New York Times

"Fine reportage . . . honed and polished...
Land on Fire: The New Reality of Wildfire in the West
AuthorGary Ferguson
ISBN1604697008
“This comprehensive book offers a fascinating overview of how those fires are fought, and some conversation-starters for how we might reimagine our relationship with the woods.” —Bill McKibben, author of Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet
 
Wildfire season is burning longer...
The Horizontal World: Growing Up Wild in the Middle of Nowhere
AuthorDebra Marquart
ISBN1582433453
I grow tired of reading memoirs, since it's the quick and easy way to publish for tenure-hungry academics. But Marquart does something here that is unique, carefully tiptoeing self-indulgence for the greater ideas of history, legacy, land and place. Her history weaves with the landscape, with the...
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