Used book in Good Condition. In 1935, and money from the reluctant hobos many of them displaced farmers who had fled the midwestern dust bowls, food, and engaged in all manner of nefarious crimes, the Spokane police regularly extorted sex, robbed dairies, including murder. Bamonte began to probe what had every appearance of widespread police crime and a massive cover-up whose highlight was the unsolved murder of Town Marshall George Conff.
The result is breaking blue, a white-knuckle ride through institutional corruption and cover-up that vividly documents Depression-era Spokane and an extraordinary case that few believed would ever be brought to light.
The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America
In the worst hard time, timothy egan put the environmental disaster of the Dust Bowl at the center of a rich history, told through characters he brought to indelible life. But no living person had seen anything like those flames, and neither the rangers nor anyone else knew how to subdue them. On the afternoon of august 20, montana, idaho, whipping the hundreds of small blazes burning across the forest floor into a roaring inferno that jumped from treetop to ridge as it raged, a battering ram of wind moved through the drought-stricken national forests of Washington, 1910, destroying towns and timber in an eyeblink.
Egan narrates the struggles of the overmatched rangers against the implacable fire with unstoppable dramatic force, through the eyes of the people who lived it. Pioneering the notion of conservation, Roosevelt and Pinchot did nothing less than create the idea of public land as our national treasure, owned by every citizen.
The big burn tells an epic story, paints a moving portrait of the people who lived it, and offers a critical cautionary tale for our time. Mariner Books. Now he performs the same alchemy with the Big Burn, the largest-ever forest fire in America and the tragedy that cemented Teddy Roosevelt's legacy in the land.
Lasso the Wind: Away to the New West
The writing is simply wonderful. Honed and polished until it reads more like literature than journalism. Los angeles times"they have tried to tame it, and subdivide it, shave it, poison it, " writes Timothy Egan of the West; still, pave it, fence it, drain it, nuke it, dam it, cut it, "this region's hold on the American character has never seemed stronger.
In this colorful and revealing journey through the eleven states west of the 100th meridian, a third-generation westerner, Egan, evokes a lovely and troubled country where land is religion and the holy war between preservers and possessors never ends. Egan leads us on an unconventional, arizona, freewheeling tour: from america's oldest continuously inhabited community, the Ancoma Pueblo in New Mexico, to the high kitsch of Lake Havasu City, where London Bridge has been painstakingly rebuilt stone by stone; from the fragile beauty of Idaho's Bitterroot Range to the gross excess of Las Vegas, a city built as though in defiance of its arid environment.
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The Immortal Irishman: The Irish Revolutionary Who Became an American Hero
Meagher’s rebirth included his leading the newly formed Irish Brigade in many of the fiercest battles of the Civil War. An old-fashioned tale of tall talk, high ideals, and irresistible appeal. A dashing young orator during the great hunger of the 1840s, Thomas Francis Meagher led a failed uprising against British rule, for which he was banished to a Tasmanian prison colony for life.
Mariner. You will not read a historical thriller like this all year. And he has a journalist’s eye for the telltale detail. A fascinating account of an extraordinary life. Daniel james brown, author of the boys in the Boat “Thomas Meagher’s is an irresistible story, irresistibly retold by the virtuosic Timothy Egan.
The Good Rain: Across Time and Terrain in the Pacific Northwest Vintage Departures
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
In an era that promises ever-greater natural disasters, the worst Hard Time is “arguably the best nonfiction book yet” Austin Statesman Journal on the greatest environmental disaster ever to be visited upon our land and a powerful cautionary tale about the dangers of trifling with nature. Mariner. Great product!
The dust storms that terrorized the High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like nothing ever seen before or since. Timothy egan’s critically acclaimed account rescues this iconic chapter of American history from the shadows in a tour de force of historical reportage.
Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis
A darn good yarn. It took tremendous perseverance — ten years alone to persuade the Hopi to allow him to observe their Snake Dance ceremony. Used book in Good Condition. But when he was thirty-two years old, in 1900, he gave it all up to pursue his Great Idea: to capture on film the continent’s original inhabitants before the old ways disappeared.
Curtis spent the next three decades documenting the stories and rituals of more than eighty North American tribes. Nature. A vivid exploration of one man's lifelong obsession with an idea. Egan is a muscular storyteller and his book is a rollicking page-turner with a colorfully drawn hero. San francisco Chronicle"A riveting biography of an American original.
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The Winemaker's Daughter
Mariner. Great product! . Passionate about the pacific northwest ecology, Brunella, a cultural impact analyst, is embroiled in a battle to save the Seattle waterfront from redevelopment and to preserve a fisherman's livelihood. Pulitzer prize-winning new york times national correspondent Timothy Egan turns to fiction with The Winemaker's Daughter, a lyrical and gripping novel about the harsh realities and ecological challenges of turning water into wine.
When brunella cartolano visits her father on the family vineyard in the basin of the Cascade Mountains, she's shocked by the devastation caused by a four-year drought. Mariner Books.
The Immortal Irishman: The Irish Revolutionary Who Became an American Hero
Great product! Nature. Twice shot from his horse while leading charges, meagher’s dream was that Irish-American troops, seasoned by war, left for dead in the Virginia mud, would return to Ireland and liberate their homeland from British rule. The hero's last chapter, as territorial governor of Montana, was a romantic quest for a true home in the far frontier.
Used book in Good Condition. He escaped and six months later was heralded in the streets of New York — the revolutionary hero, back from the dead, at the dawn of the great Irish immigration to America. Meagher’s rebirth in america included his leading the newly formed Irish Brigade from New York in many of the fiercest battles of the Civil War — Bull Run, Antietam, Fredericksburg.
A dashing young orator during the great famine of the 1840s, Thomas Francis Meagher led a failed uprising against British rule, in which a million of his Irish countrymen died, for which he was banished to a Tasmanian prison colony. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Love and Other Consolation Prizes: A Novel
Library journal “Poignant. It is by turns heart-rending, warm, disturbing, sanguine, tragic, and life-affirming. Fifty years later, in the shadow of seattle’s second World’s Fair, Ernest struggles to help his ailing wife reconcile who she once was with who she wanted to be, while trying to keep family secrets hidden from their grown-up daughters.
Jamie ford captures the thrill of first kisses and the shock of revealing long-hidden affairs. Kirkus reviews “Strong. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Nature. There, ernest becomes the new houseboy and befriends Maisie, the madam’s precocious daughter, and a bold scullery maid named Fahn.
The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved America
Nature. Used book in Good Condition. Great product! On the afternoon of august 20, a battering ram of wind moved through the drought-stricken national forests of Washington, and Montana, Idaho, 1910, whipping the hundreds of small blazes burning across the forest floor into a roaring inferno. Mariner Books.
Pioneering the notion of conservation, Roosevelt and Pinchot did nothing less than create the idea of public land as our national treasure, owned by and preserved for every citizen. Tr and gifford Pinchot and the American forest. Forest rangers had assembled nearly ten thousand men—college boys, day workers, immigrants from mining camps—to fight the fire.
Equally dramatic is the larger story he tells of outsized president Teddy Roosevelt and his chief forester, Gifford Pinchot.