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10 best books like Where Rivers Change Direction (Mark Spragg): Rising from the Plains, Trespass: Living at the Edge of the Promised Land, Fencing the Sky: A Novel, The Legend of Colton H. Bryant, The Sound of Mountain Water, Grizzly Years: In Search of the American Wilderness, Everett Ruess: A Vagabond for Beauty & Wilderness Journals, An Entirely Synthetic Fish: How Rainbow Trout Beguiled America and Overran the World, The Horses in My Life, The Solace of Open Spaces

Rising from the Plains
AuthorJohn McPhee
ISBN0374520658
This is about high-country geology and a Rocky Mountain regional geologist. I raise that semaphore here at the start so no one will feel misled by an opening passage in which a slim young woman who is not in any sense a geologist steps down from a train in Rawlins, Wyoming, in order to go north by stagecoach...
Trespass: Living at the Edge of the Promised Land
AuthorAmy Irvine
ISBN0865477035
Trespass is the story of one woman's struggle to gain footing in inhospitable territory. A wilderness activist and apostate Mormon, Amy Irvine sought respite in the desert outback of southern Utah's red-rock country after her father's suicide, only to find out just how much of an interloper she was...
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 Legend of Colton H. Bryant
AuthorAlexandra Fuller
ISBN1594201838
From the bestselling author of Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight and Scribbling the Cat, the unforgettable true story of a boy who comes of age in the oil-fields and open plains of Wyoming; a heartrending story of the human spirit that lays bare where it is that wisdom truly resides.

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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...
Grizzly Years: In Search of the American Wilderness
AuthorDoug Peacock
ISBN0805045430
For nearly twenty years, alone and unarmed, author Doug Peacock traversed the rugged mountains of Montana and Wyoming tracking the magnificent grizzly. His thrilling narrative takes us into the bear's habitat, where we observe directly this majestic animal's behavior, from hunting strategies,...
Everett Ruess: A Vagabond for Beauty & Wilderness Journals
AuthorW.L. Rusho
ISBN1586851640
Everett Ruess—a bold teenage adventurer, artist, and writer—tramped around the Sierra Nevada, the California coast, and the desert wilderness of the Southwest between 1930 and 1934. At the age of 20, he mysteriously vanished into the barren Utah desert. Ruess has become an icon for modern-day...
An Entirely Synthetic Fish: How Rainbow Trout Beguiled America and Overran the World
AuthorAnders Halverson
ISBN0300140878
Anders Halverson provides an exhaustively researched and grippingly rendered account of the rainbow trout and why it has become the most commonly stocked and controversial freshwater fish in the United States. Discovered in the remote waters of northern California, rainbow trout have been artificially...
The Horses in My Life
AuthorMonty Roberts
ISBN1570763232
I read this book in two days. It was a pageturner, but only for those highly interested in the subject of horse training methods using nonviolence. Monty retells touching stories of the most influential horses in his life. I cried at least twice! Though the stories are in general about his trials and tribulations...
The Solace of Open Spaces
AuthorGretel Ehrlich
ISBN0140081135
When I requested this title in NetGalley, I did not realize it was an older book of essays coming up for a reprinting. I actually have another book from the author on my "around the world" shelves at home - This Cold Heaven: Seven Seasons in Greenland. So she was on my vague periphery, but I was very happy to...
Hole in the Sky: A Memoir
AuthorWilliam Kittredge
ISBN0679740066
William Kittredge's stunning memoir is at once autobiography, a family chronicle, and a Westerner's settling of accounts with the land he grew up in. This is the story of a grandfather whose single-minded hunger for property won him a ranch the size of Delaware but estranged him from his family; of a...
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...
Heart Earth
AuthorIvan Doig
ISBN0156031086
Ivan Doig grew up with only a vague memory of his mother, Berneta, who died on his sixth birthday. Then he discovered a cache of her letters--and through them, a spunky, passionate, can-do woman as at home in the saddle as behind a sewing machine, and as in love with language as Doig would prove to be. In this...
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...
Holdfast: At Home in the Natural World
AuthorKathleen Dean Moore
ISBN1558217800
Several essays really stood out which is what I'm looking for in reading a book like this(something relatable to my experiences). The essay "the song of the canyon wren" described something I've known my entire life, even as a child, but have never shared nor even knew how to put it into words! Moore says...
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....
Cache Lake Country: Life in the North Woods
AuthorJohn J. Rowlands
ISBN0881504211
Over half a century ago, John Rowlands set out by canoe into the wilds of Canada to survey land for a timber company. After paddling alone for several days—"it was so quiet I could hear the drops from the paddle hitting the water"—he came upon "the lake of my boyhood dreams." He never left. He named the...
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...
Great Possessions : An Amish Farmer's Journal
AuthorDavid Kline
ISBN1888683228
Organized in four sections corresponding to the seasons, this account by an Amish farmer of his life in Southern Ohio, celebrates his daily labours, his family and, most importantly, the flora and fauna of his 70 acre farm. He works his land with horses and without electricity. He describes the proper...
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