The River We Carry With US - Two Centuries of Writing from the Clark Fork Basin

x, 246 pp. A project of the Clark Fork Coalition, this anthology explores life in western Montana's Clark Fork River basin. Some of Montana's finest writers, from the past and present, write about landscape and history: In grand sweeps and intimate recollections, taking the reader on a journey from the mining scars of the upper Clark Fork to the trout filled Big Blackfoot, to the calm waters of the Bitterroot and, finally, to the cool depths of Idaho's Lake Pend Oreille. Starting with a foreword from William Kittredge, the collection of voices speaks to our changing, and yet constant, relationship with the river. Historical pieces, such as a travelogue in Harper's Magazine in 1894 and an account of a float trip down the Bitterroot in 1883, are juxtaposed against the work of over twenty (24) of Montana's best contemporary writers, including Duncan Adams, Sandra Alcosser*, Rick Bass*, James Lee Burke*, Colin Chisolm*, Phil Condon*, Edwin Dobb*, David James Duncan*, Debra Earling*, Bruce Farling, Ian Frazier, Dan Flores*, George Grant, Fred Haefle, William Kittredge*, Richard Manning, Mark Medvetz*, Ginny Merriam*, Norman Maclean, Jack Nisbet, Caroline Patterson, Annick Smith*, Donald Snow*, & Bill Vaughn*. . Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.