Mark Spragg :: A Wyoming Life, Culture, Sep 2005 [ZOOZOOM]
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Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Monday, July 20, 2009
Where Rivers Change Direction
This book is what originally brought me out to southwest Montana, to this unique region of our country. I first read it in 2002, read it again when I moved here in 2003, and revisited it when I had the opportunity to go to an author reading at the Country Bookshelf in 2004. I've read Spragg's other work but this collection of autobiographical essays is his most significant thus far. This book is about being an animal, being a human within the confines of the wilderness. Today one's life can still be shaped by nature and one's relationship to nature and the land they grew up on.
"I am related to water. I am a descendant of its sound and movement... Water brings me joy. I fear that water will someday murder me. My life is balanced between its threat and grace... I cling to the sound of water to be brave in the world. I go to the sound of water to remember that God is not mute. "
Where Rivers Change Direction by Mark Spragg, Riverhead Books, New York, 1999 (254-255).
Today I drive across the Continental Divide often as my home, my boys are in Bozeman and my work, my profession is now in Butte as the new Digital Collections Librarian at the Butte-Silver Bow Public Library. I'm a woman who's life is halved where the rivers change direction.
Catherine @ Reading In Montana
Ghost Towns of Montana
Ghost Towns of Montana by Donald C. Miller, 10th Printing (1981), Details and photos for 40 ghost town locations, a historical gem about the lost places in Big Sky country. Catherine @ Reading In Montana
Sunday, July 19, 2009
Cookbook: Montana Celebrity
Cooking up farmer's market potatoes in Butte, Montana.
In this book 200 celebrities have volunteered their favorite recipes to make a cookbook for the benefit of the Intermountain Children's Home in Helena, Montana. The recipes are as varied, colorful, and entertaining as the contributors--who include Tom Brokaw, Glenn Close, Jack Nicklaus, Michael Keaton, Evel Knievel, and others.
Catherine @ Reading In Montana
Monday, July 13, 2009
Fishing in Montana
Unforgettable Days: Montana Trout Fishing Hardcover, Riverbend Publishing 2002. Full of beautiful photos and landscapes, as well as quotes from the likes of John Gierach, Jim Harrison, and Ed Zern.
Catherine @ Reading In Montana
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
The Night the Mountain Fell
The Night the Mountain Fell: The Story of the Montana-Yellowstone Earthquake by Edmund Christopherson
Collectors Edition! 1960
11:37 P.M. on August 17, 1959 - It's almost been 50 years since the creation of Quake Lake.
(Image caption: Motorists can hardly believe their eyes-the earthquake takes its toll, creating a dead end and a new lake near West Yellowstone, August 1959.)
Catherine @ Reading In Montana
Monday, July 6, 2009
Going to the Sun
One of the most beautiful places I've been is along the Going to Sun Road in Glacier National Park. The Park is just one of those places you must visit to understand some of the extreme beauty Nature has to offer.
Check out this Lonely Planet Guide to some of the National Parks in North America when you plan your next trip up north. Color photos and hiking maps for Banff, Jasper & Glacier National Parks.
Lonely Planet: Banff, Jasper & Glacier National Parks by Miller, Derby, and Lukas.
Catherine @ Reading In Montana
Sunday, July 5, 2009
Signed by Montana Author, Thomas McGuane
Some Horses: Essays by Thomas McGuane of Sweet Grass County, Montana - beautiful hardcover 1st edition, signed by author, illustrations, collectible, The Lyons Press 1999.
From the dust cover:
Tom McGuane loves horses. Nowhere is that more evident than in his deft and utterly fascinating essays about some of the more remarkable horses and horsemen he has known.In these nine essays, he examines the relationship between horses and humans: what it is about horses that reveals so much about ourselves, what we see in them, why they respond to us, and the symbiosis that can result from such a match. Whether he is writing about cutting horses, learning to rope, or the birth of a foal, McGuane's passion finds expression in his extraordinary talent.
Catherine @ Reading In Montana
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Books of Montana
Montana Spaces: Essays and Photographs in Celebration of Montana by Thomas McGuane, David Quammen, Wallace Stegner, Gretel Ehrlich, Tim Cahill, Alston Chase, and others. Photographs by John Smart, Edited by William Kittredge
I try seek out books and materials on Montana: people, place, art, and living, especially the out of print, more rare, and harder to find materials. This recent find (above) has only about 20 copies available on Amazon.com in hardcover.
Please consider Reading In Montana for your next Montana book purchase. If you are looking for something special you can always shoot us an email at ReadingInMontana@gmail.com and we will help you find it.
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