Theodore Catton

Theodore Catton was born in Seattle and has lived most of his life in Washington and Montana. He is an independent historian who specializes in writing book-length reports for the National Park Service. His first book publication, Inhabited Wilderness: Indians, Eskimos and National Parks in Alaska, received the George Perkins Marsh Prize in 1998. He was the recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities grant in 2011 and went to New Zealand as a Fulbright scholar in 2012. His latest book, Rainy Lake House: Twilight of Empire on the Northern Frontier, mingles the early life stories of a white man adopted into the Ojibwa nation, a Hudson's Bay Company fur trader, and a U.S. army explorer.