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No. 0130 Fiction · Rocky Mountains

Beartooth: A Novel

Callan Wink

In this second novel from author and fly-fishing guide Callan Wink, twenty-something brothers Thad and Hazen are hanging on, barely, in their rustic log house on the banks of the Yellowstone River, just outside the national park. They’re saddled with…

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Beartooth: A Novel
No. 0068 Memoir · Rocky Mountains

Grizzly Years: In Search of the American Wilderness

Doug Peacock

Peacock came home from Vietnam a Green Beret medic who couldn’t be around people, drove into the Montana and Wyoming backcountry, and started following grizzlies. No gun. A camera instead, and years of sitting still in the timber watching bears…

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Grizzly Years: In Search of the American Wilderness
No. 0060 Memoir · American Southwest

Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place

Terry Tempest Williams

Two things happen at once. The Great Salt Lake rises to record levels through the mid-eighties and drowns the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, where Williams has watched birds her whole life. And her mother is dying of ovarian cancer,…

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Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place
No. 0027 Fiction · Rocky Mountains

The Dog Stars

Peter Heller

We’ve all imagined what it would be like to survive an apocalypse, but Peter Heller imagined it better. It’s nine years after a pandemic, our location a small airport at the base of the Colorado Rockies. Hig (Big Hig to…

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The Dog Stars
No. 0106 Fiction · Rocky Mountains

The Guide

Peter Heller

Peter Heller’s novel The River,moved as swiftly and eventfully as class V whitewater, but not all readers were pleased with its denouement (one AJ editor and Heller fan threw his copy against the wall in protest). The Guide, though, will…

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The Guide