Moscow / Shorewood / Washington D.C. / Guggenheim / Montreal / Philadelphia / Portland / Joseph / Say Phoenix / Washington / Wellpinit / Ketchum / Great Falls / /
Company
Mary Blew / Gourmet / Pullman / Amazon / Flat Top Sheep Company / Idaho Public Radio / Ford / The Georgia Review / Mademoiselle / Shenandoah / Black Canyon Quarterly / /
EntertainmentAwardEvent
Academy Awards / The New Yorker Book Award / the National Book Award / the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association award / Hole in the Sky / American Book Award / the Pacific Northwest Bookseller’s Award / the Sundance Film Festival / the Montana Governor’s Award / the Neil Simon Award / /
Event
Person Communication and Meetings / Movie Release / Person Travel / /
Facility
Stanford University / Idaho State University / Sir George Williams University / Oregon State University / University of Michigan / University of Idaho / University of Montana / University of Delaware / Clark State College / University of Iowa Writers Workshop / Washington State University / Concordia University / Colby College / /
IndustryTerm
long car trips / law school / /
Movie
The Big Sky / Game / Smoke Signals / Brokeback Mountain / King of the Mountain / The Lone Ranger / Heartland / Ten Little Indians / The Business of Fancydancing / /
NaturalFeature
Indian Creek / Brokeback Mountain / Sawtooth Valley / Warner Valley / Creek Chronicles / Creek Chronicles Named / Home Mountains / /
Organization
University of Idaho / Oregon State University / University of Iowa Writers Workshop / State College / the University of Iowa / Idaho Commission on the Arts / Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association / Idaho Library Association / Pilgrim Holiness Church / Before Columbus Foundation / National Honor Society / Sir George Williams University / Concordia University / Washington State University / Idaho Rural Council / University of Montana / Washington State’s Espy Foundation / University of Delaware / Colby College / Lewiston High School / National Park Service / Stanford University / Hemingway Foundation / Idaho State University / the University of Michigan / National Endowment for the Arts / /
Person
Sherman Alexie / Nick Adams / Kim Barnes / John Peavey / Alene Indian / Pete Fromm / Alvin Josephy / Jr. / Annie Proulx / Wendell Berry / Rose Powers / A. B. Guthrie / Jr. / Ivan Doig / James Welch / John Rember / Robert Wrigley / Ivan Doig Traplines / Jim Bridger / Craig Lesley / Susan Swetnam / William Kittredge / Reynolds Price / Claire Davis / Carey Idaho / Diane Josephy Peavey / Chris Eyre / Diane Josephy / Lucille Ball / Grace Jordan / /
Position
Author Information Born / Author / King / professor / seasonal ranger / logger / special assistant at the department / noted historian / poet / Sky Fisherman / The Lone Ranger / Senator / mechanical engineer / poet and professor / Governor / Author Information Daughter / Director / correspondent / journalist / writer / Lone Ranger / Literature Director / warden / co-editor / noted historian of American Indians / /
Why Am I Reading This? The contemporary western writers featured in this theme have a variety of perspectives on rural life in the modern West. Ranging in location across the northern rural West from Washington to variou