Continuing my new obsession with Teddy Roosevelt! I liked this book and it is certainly well written and researched. The only thing preventing me from giving it four stars is that I found it pretty depressing! The first half is great. In the second half there's a lot of loss and death and destruc...
This is a very interesting biography of Edward Curtis, an outstanding photographer of Native American life. It provides not only a view into Curtis' complex personality but also into the Native American cultures he was recording, and the social times and context within which he was working. A ver...
Egan has used vivid and detailed descriptions of the calamitous fire of 1910 to provide a lens through which to understand the inception and growth of the conservation movement and the National Forest Service. The subtitle is a little misleading (Teddy Roosevelt was not directly involved with th...
A good book...a thorough history...but dry as a throat full of sawdust in the middle of the desert. That about sums it up, but of course I will continue to babble on for a few more paragraphs. Before reading this book, I knew next to nothing about the Dust Bowl and the cataclysmic storms that oc...
Timothy Egan is an important Western writer. Not a writer of Westerns, but a Western writer. He documents forgotten stories of the American West, with a particular emphasis on the Northwest. Among his more important works are The Worst Hard Time (which departs from his usual northwestern setting ...