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  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. 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.
  
  On the afternoon of August 20, 1910, a
battering ram of wind moved through the drought-stricken national forests of Washington, Idaho, Montana, whipping the
hundreds of small blazes burning across the forest floor into a roaring inferno that jumped from treetop to ridge as it
raged, destroying towns and timber in an eyeblink. Forest rangers had assembled nearly ten thousand men — college
boys, day-workers, immigrants from mining camps — to fight the fires. But no living person had seen anything like
those flames, and neither the rangers nor anyone else knew how to subdue them.
  
  Egan narrates the
struggles of the overmatched rangers...
  
  
  
  In 1935, Spokane, Wash., was in the sixth year of the Great Depression. Unemployment was high. Civilian
Conservation Corps workers were arriving in droves from the East for the Grand Coulee Dam project. Crime was rampant,
and a series of creamery robberies had the town on edge. Then, on Sept. 4, the Pend Oreille County town marshal
investigating these crimes was murdered. The mystery of George Conniff's death went unsolved until 1989, when Tony
Bamonte, sheriff of Pend Oreille County and a graduate student, inadvertently uncovered information that generations of
police had conspired to keep hidden. Egan ( The Good Rain ), Seattle bureau chief for the New York Times, lumbers
occasionally, but his account of the reopened investigation generally resonates with regional color. Bamonte's
investigation of the killing started as scholarly research, but stepped up when "a convergence of conscience and
coincidence" suggested that the marshal had been shot by a cop protecting colleagues associated with the robberies. In a
deathbed confession, a cop revealed that the Spokane police were involved in more than "a conspiracy of small
corruptions." Egan evocatively resurrects the scenes and raw insensitivities of '30s police life in the region, from
Mother's Place, the diner where cops plotted their heists, to the Hotel de Gink, where transients stayed. 
 
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
  
  
  
  A fantastic book! Timothy Egan describes his journeys in the Pacific Northwest through
visits to salmon fisheries, redwood forests and the manicured English gardens of Vancouver. Here is a blend of history,
anthropology and politics.
  
  From the Trade Paperback edition.
  
  Amazon.com Review
  
  Egan succeeds in capturing the richness and beauty of the Pacific Northwest (and it's possibly imminent destruction)
with rich description, appropriately chosen and reported interviews, and visits to exactly the places I would have
chosen for such a book. From manicured gardens in essentially English Vancouver, B.C., to Indian reservations in western
Washington, to the proud rural communities in eastern Washington, and visits to the precipitous peaks and brooding
volcanos of the Cascade Mountains, Egan captures the presences and peoples of this region more effectively than most any
other book I have encountered. Highly Recommended.
  
  From Library Journal
  
  The Pacific
Northwest, with its giant trees, fascinating coastline, mighty Columbia River, and not-always-dormant volcanoes, has
inspired a number of personal narratives. In this book, reminiscent of Ivan Doig's Winter Brothers ( LJ 10/15/80), New
York Times reporter Egan interweaves personal experiences and conversations with observations of nature and historical
information. He travels through Washington, Oregon, and southern Vancouver, following the route taken by an earlier
traveler, Theodore Winthrop, 150 years ago. A conservationist ethic pervades the book; Egan discusses major problems
such as the cutting of the forests. A nicely done narrative for the general reader.
  - Joseph Hannibal, Cleveland
Museum of Natural History
  Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. 
  
  
  
  A New York Times Notable Book of the Year

 
  Winner of the Mountains and Plains Book Seller's Association Award
  
  "Sprawling in scope. . . .
Mr. Egan uses the past powerfully to explain and give dimension to the present." --The New York Times
  
 
"Fine reportage . . . honed and polished until it reads more like literature than journalism." --Los Angeles Times

 
  "They have tried to tame it, shave it, fence it, cut it, dam it, drain it, nuke it, poison it, pave it, and
subdivide it," writes Timothy Egan of the West; still, "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, Egan, a
third-generation westerner, 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, freewheeling tour: from
America's oldest continuously inhabited community, the Ancoma Pueblo in New Mexico, to the high kitsch of Lake Havasu
City, Arizona, 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. In a
unique blend of travel writing, historical reflection, and passionate polemic, Egan has produced a moving study of the
West: how it became what it is, and where it is going.
  
  "The writing is simply wonderful. From the opening
paragraph, Egan seduces the reader. . . . Entertaining, thought provoking." 
  --The Arizona Daily Star Weekly
  
  "A western breeziness and love of open spaces shines through Lasso the Wind. . . . The writing is simple and
evocative."
  --The Economist
  
  From the Trade Paperback edition.
  
  
  
  “A vivid exploration
of one man's lifelong obsession with an idea . . . Egan’s spirited biography might just bring [Curtis] the
recognition that eluded him in life.” — *Washington Post *
  
  Edward Curtis was charismatic,
handsome, a passionate mountaineer, and a famous portrait photographer, the Annie Leibovitz of his time. He moved in
rarefied circles, a friend to presidents, vaudeville stars, leading thinkers. 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. It took tremendous perseverance — ten years alone to persuade the Hopi to
allow him to observe their Snake Dance ceremony. And the undertaking changed him profoundly, from detached observer to
outraged advocate. Curtis would amass more than 40,000 photographs and 10,000 audio recordings, and he is credited with
making the first narrative documentary film. In the process, the charming rogue with the grade school education created
the most definitive archive of the American Indian.
  
  “A darn good yarn. 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." – *Boston Globe *
  
  
  
  Starred Review. Egan tells an extraordinary
tale in this visceral account of how America's great, grassy plains turned to dust, and how the ferocious plains winds
stirred up an endless series of "black blizzards" that were like a biblical plague: "Dust clouds boiled up, ten thousand
feet or more in the sky, and rolled like moving mountains" in what became known as the Dust Bowl. But the plague was
man-made, as Egan shows: the plains weren't suited to farming, and plowing up the grass to plant wheat, along with a
confluence of economic disaster—the Depression—and natural disaster—eight years of
drought—resulted in an ecological and human catastrophe that Egan details with stunning specificity. He grounds
his tale in portraits of the people who settled the plains: hardy Americans and immigrants desperate for a piece of land
to call their own and lured by the lies of promoters who said the ground was arable. Egan's interviews with survivors
produce tales of courage and suffering: Hazel Lucas, for instance, dared to give birth in the midst of the blight only
to see her baby die of "dust pneumonia" when her lungs clogged with the airborne dirt. With characters who seem to have
sprung from a novel by Sinclair Lewis or Steinbeck, and Egan's powerful writing, this account will long remain in
readers' minds. (Dec. 14) 
  Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights
reserved.
  
  From The New Yorker
  
  On April 14, 1935, the biggest dust storm on record
descended over five states, from the Dakotas to Amarillo, Texas. People standing a few feet apart could not see each
other; if they touched, they risked being knocked over by the static electricity that the dust created in the air. The
Dust Bowl was the product of reckless, market-driven farming that had so abused the land that, when dry weather came,
the wind lifted up millions of acres of topsoil and whipped it around in "black blizzards," which blew as far east as
New York. This ecological disaster rapidly disfigured whole communities. Egan's portraits of the families who stayed
behind are sobering and far less familiar than those of the "exodusters" who staggered out of the High Plains. He tells
of towns depopulated to this day, a mother who watched her baby die of "dust pneumonia," and farmers who gathered
tumbleweed as food for their cattle and, eventually, for their children. 
  Copyright © 2006 The New Yorker
  
  
  
   						

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