The moving, tough, and in many ways quintessentially American story of Colton H. Bryant's life and the land that grew him.

Composed of writings by Ethel Waxham Love, a Wellesley College graduate who married Scottish rancher John Love and went to live on his ranch in 1910, and her son, J. David Love, who later became an eminent geologist, Life on Muskrat Creek tells the fascinating story of a family's day-to-day life on an isolated ranch in early twentieth-century Wyoming. Readers will learn about the family's persistence despite a variety of challenges, including a near-fatal...

"Before the 1970s few women were employed by the U.S. Forest Service. During the 1960s and 70s new environmental and fair employment laws meant that the agency began to hire talented women in professional careers. For the first time women began working as wildlife biologists, geologists, soil scientists, and fisheries biologists for the Forest Service. A Hunger for High Country is the story of one of these women. Set in the national forests surrounding...