Winner of the Seymour Medal

1921: The Yankees, the Giants, and the Battle for Baseball Supremacy in New York by Lyle Spatzand Steve Steinberg takes place at the dawn of the roaring twenties whenbaseball was struggling to overcome two of its darkest moments: the death of a player during a Major League game and the revelations of the 1919 Black Sox scandal. At this critical juncture for baseball, two teams emerged to fight for the future of the game. They were also battling for the hearts and minds of New Yorkers as the city rose in dramatic fashion to the pinnacleof the baseball world. 1921 … Continue reading Winner of the Seymour Medal

More Lisa Harper news

Lisa Harper, author of A Double Life: Discovering Motherhood, will be a guest on Cassie Premo Steele's Co-CreatingShow tomorrow at 3:30 p.m. You can even call in live to ask questions. Click here for the link to the radio show and number. In other Double Life news, Harper was also on a memoir panel with Katherine Ellison, author of Buzz, on the blog, Writers on Writing. Take a listen here.                                                             … Continue reading More Lisa Harper news

Off the Shelf: Honyocker Dreams by David Mogen

Mogen Read the "Finding Home" from Honyocker Dreams: Montana Memories by David Mogen:

"By the time I got to know my way around a new hometown, it was time to leave.

And where was “home”? While I was growing up we moved through a series of small towns along the Montana Hi-Line, the three-hundred-mile corridor stretching west from North Dakota to the Rockies, and north from the Missouri River to Canada. But we also lived in Bozeman and Missoula while Dad went to school, and since we visited relatives all across the state it sometimes seemed that all of Montana was home. For a while, Idaho was home, too. When I was twelve I began working as a farmhand for three summers in a row at my uncle Phil and aunt Roma’s Idaho homestead, nearly a thousand miles from my Montana home.

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A celebration of Bison Books

The Golden West edited by Alicia Christensen celebrates the Bison Books tradition of giving readers the best historical, literary, and original western literature, bringing together some of the most beloved and iconic stories of the American West. Published in celebration of Bison Books' 50th anniversary, The Golden West collects iconic Western voices who have published with Bison Books throughout the years. Stories include those depicting adventures of the Corps of Discovery to the trials of the Oregon Trail, from traditional Sioux culture to Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show, and from the cowboys, ranchers, farmers, and mountaineers who often make up our … Continue reading A celebration of Bison Books