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A biography which brings together two exemplary American men of letters.

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This Is Dinosaur was first published in 1955, in the midst of a bitter controversy over the proposed construction of dams at Echo Park. The outcome of the controversy--a congressional vote to prohibit the dams--"set in brass the principle that any part of the national park system should be immune from any sort of intrusion and damage, " wrote Wallace Stegner in the 1985 edition of the book. Reprinted with new color photographs, This Is Dinosau...

Excerpt from The Women on the WallThe old password came naturally, as if he were back seventeen years. In their college crowd everybody had called everybody else Canby, for no reason except that someone, probably Mel, had begun it and everyone else had followed suit. There had been a real Canby, a sort of goof. Now he was a cpa in Denver, and the usurpers of his name were scattered from coast to coast.Well, Canby! The filtered voice said heart...

A classic novel from Wallace Stegner, and the "dean of Western writers" (The New York Times) and the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Angle of Repose and Crossing to Safety--this is his the incredible, moving sequel to the bestselling Big Rock Candy Mountain.Bruce Mason returns to Salt Lake City not for his aunt's funeral, but to encounter the place he fled in bitterness forty-five years ago. A successful statesman and diplomat, Mason had buri...

Wallace Stegner's remarkable portrait of Joe Hill, the man and the legend: from his entrance into the Industrial Workers of the World union, the most militant organization in the history of American labor, to his trial, imprisonment, and final martyrdom.Blending fact with fiction, Wallace Stegner retells the story of Joe Hill--the Wobbly bard who became the stuff of legend when, in 1915, he was executed for the alleged murder of a Salt Lake Ci...

Wallace Stegner, a major American novelist and conservationist, is interviewed by Etulain, a renowned Western scholar, in a series of discussions. Originally published in 1983 and entitled Conversations with Wallace Stegner on Western History and Literature, this book is the ultimate Stegner interview. New foreword by Stewart Udall.

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In De fundamenten van ons leven keert Lyman Ward, emeritus hoogleraar en auteur van boeken over het Amerikaanse Westen, terug naar het huis van zijn grootouders in Grass Valley, in de Californische Sierra Nevada. Aan een rolstoel gekluisterd door een slopende botziekte en grotendeels afhankelijk van de zorg van anderen, reconstrueert hij daar het heroïsche pioniersleven van zijn grootmoeder, die bijna honderd jaar eerder het continent doorkrui...

Bo Mason, his wife, Elsa, and their two boys live a transient life of poverty and despair. Drifing from town to town and from state to state, the violent, ruthless Bo seeks outhis fortune--in the hotel business, on new farmland, and, eventually, in illegal rum-running through the threacherous back roads of the American Northwest. Bo chases after the promise of the American dream through Minnesota, the Dakotas, Saskatchewan, Montana, Utah and N...

Excerpt from The Women on the Wall Thanks are due to the Atlantic Monthly for permission to reprint The Berry Patch, Saw Gang, Goin' to Town, Two Rivers, and The Chink, to H arper's M aga zine for Beyond the Glass Mountain, The Women on the Wall, The Volcano, and Butcher Bird, to Mademoiselle for T he View From the Balcony and In the Twilight, to the Virginia Quarterly Review for Bugle song, Hostage, and Chip OE the Old Block, to Cosmopolitan...

A book of timeless importance about the American West and a modern classic by National Book Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning Wallace Stegner. The essays, memoirs, letters, and speeches collected in The Sound of Mountain Water encompass memoir, nature conservation, history, geography, and literature. Compositions delve into the post-World War II boom that brought the Rocky Mountain West--from Montana and Idaho to Utah and Nevada--into the mode...

Sabrina Castro is a wealthy, attractive woman married to an older physician who no longer fulfills her dreams. An accidental misstep leads her down the path of moral disintegration. How she comes to terms with her life is the theme of this absorbing personal drama played out against the backdrop of an old Peninsula estate where her mother lives among her servants, her memories of Boston, and her treasured family archives. Now on audio for the ...

Margaret Stuart, the proud wife of a prosperous Iowa farmer, sets high standards for herself and others. Happy in her marriage, she tries to look the other way when her genial husband, Alec, takes to the bottle. When Elspeth, Margarets sister, comes to live with them, the young woman is immediately captivated by the beauty and vitality of the farm and by the affection she receives from those around her. But as summer turns into fall and the fr...