Indian Creek Chronicles

Author : Pete Fromm
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1993-05-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780762766567

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Indian Creek Chronicles by Pete Fromm Pdf

"The wardens climbed into their truck, ready to leave. 'You'll need about seven cords of firewood. Concentrate on that. You'll have to get it all in before the snow grounds your truck.'" "Though I didn't want to ask, it seemed important. 'What's a cord?'" So begins Pete Fromm's seven winter months alone in a tent in the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness guarding salmon eggs. After blundering into this forbidding errand as a college lark, Fromm gradually come face to face with the blunt realities of life as a contemporary mountain man. Brutal cold, isolation, and fearful risks balance against the satisfaction of living a unique existence in modern America. This award-winning narrative is a gripping story of adventure, a rousing tale of self-sufficiency, and modern-day Walden. From either perspective, Fromm lives up to his reputation as one of the West's strongest new voices.

Author : Pete Fromm
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781250101693

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The Names of the Stars by Pete Fromm Pdf

Winner of Honor Book for the 2016 Montana Book Award At twenty years old, Pete Fromm heard of a job babysitting salmon eggs, seven winter months alone in a tent in the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness. Leaping at this chance to be a mountain man, with no experience in the wilds, he left the world. Thirteen years later, he published his beloved memoir of that winter, Indian Creek Chronicles —Into the Wild with a twist. Twenty five years later, he was asked to return to the wilderness to babysit more fish eggs. But no longer a footloose twenty year old, at forty-five, he was the father of two young sons. He left again, alone, straight into the heart of Montana’s Bob Marshall wilderness, walking a daily ten mile loop to his fish eggs through deer and elk and the highest density of grizzly bears in the lower 48 states. The Names of the Stars is not only a story of wilderness and bears but also a trek through a life lived at its edges, showing how an impulsive kid transformed into a father without losing his love for the wilds. From loon calls echoing across Northwood lakes to the grim realities of life guarding in the Nevada desert, through the isolation of Indian Creek and years spent running the Snake and Rio Grande as a river ranger, Pete seeks out the source of this passion for wildness, as well as explores fatherhood and mortality and all the costs and risks and rewards of life lived on its own terms.

Author : Pete Fromm
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2007-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429974141

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As Cool As I Am by Pete Fromm Pdf

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING CLAIRE DANES, JAMES MARSDEN AND SARAH BOLGER As Cool As I Am "... packs an emotional punch that sneaks up from behind... Fromm creates an engrossing coming-of-age saga that cuts to the essence and shines."(Seattle Times). As a teenager pretty much left to raise herself, Lucy Diamond is a narrator with a radiant yet guarded heart. As she races at breakneck pace toward womanhood, everything is at stake for her, producing an urgency and dread that she holds at bay with humor and grace. But while Lucy charges ahead, her mother's youth is fading. Simultaneously embracing and resisting their similarities, Pete Fromm reveals both women's emotional vulnerabilities and their deep mutual need. Conveyed through dialogue that is both laugh-aloud-funny and true, Lucy stands out in contemporary literature for her large heart and inimitable grit. A Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Book of the Year

Author : Pete Fromm
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781640093843

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A Job You Mostly Won't Know How to Do by Pete Fromm Pdf

A big–hearted novel “about the grace of friends and family, the true depth and patience of love, and the impossible privilege of what it means to be a father” (Caroline Leavitt, New York Times bestselling author of Pictures of You). For young couple Taz and Marnie, their fixer–upper is the symbol of their new life together: a work in progress, the beginning of something grand, all the more so when they learn a baby is on her way. But the blueprint for the perfect life eludes Taz when Marnie dies in childbirth, plummeting the taciturn carpenter headfirst into the new, strange world of fatherhood alone, a landscape of contradictions, of great joy and sorrow. With a supporting cast as rich and compelling as the wild Montana landscape, the novel follows Taz's first two years as a father―a job no one can be fully prepared for. The five–time winner of the Pacific Northwest Bookseller Award with more than eleven books in over twenty years, Pete Fromm has become one of the West’s best literary legends. A Job You Mostly Won’t Know How To Do beautifully captures people who end up building a life that is both unexpected and brave.

Author : Angela Pulley Hudson
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2010-06-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0807898279

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Creek Paths and Federal Roads by Angela Pulley Hudson Pdf

In Creek Paths and Federal Roads, Angela Pulley Hudson offers a new understanding of the development of the American South by examining travel within and between southeastern Indian nations and the southern states, from the founding of the United States until the forced removal of southeastern Indians in the 1830s. During the early national period, Hudson explains, settlers and slaves made their way along Indian trading paths and federal post roads, deep into the heart of the Creek Indians' world. Hudson focuses particularly on the creation and mapping of boundaries between Creek Indian lands and the states that grew up around them; the development of roads, canals, and other internal improvements within these territories; and the ways that Indians, settlers, and slaves understood, contested, and collaborated on these boundaries and transit networks. While she chronicles the experiences of these travelers--Native, newcomer, free, and enslaved--who encountered one another on the roads of Creek country, Hudson also places indigenous perspectives squarely at the center of southern history, shedding new light on the contingent emergence of the American South.

Author : Pete Fromm
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2003-10-17
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0312422725

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Indian Creek Chronicles by Pete Fromm Pdf

"With a new afterword by the author"--Cover.

Author : David A. Chang
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2010-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0807895768

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The Color of the Land by David A. Chang Pdf

The Color of the Land brings the histories of Creek Indians, African Americans, and whites in Oklahoma together into one story that explores the way races and nations were made and remade in conflicts over who would own land, who would farm it, and who would rule it. This story disrupts expected narratives of the American past, revealing how identities--race, nation, and class--took new forms in struggles over the creation of different systems of property. Conflicts were unleashed by a series of sweeping changes: the forced "removal" of the Creeks from their homeland to Oklahoma in the 1830s, the transformation of the Creeks' enslaved black population into landed black Creek citizens after the Civil War, the imposition of statehood and private landownership at the turn of the twentieth century, and the entrenchment of a sharecropping economy and white supremacy in the following decades. In struggles over land, wealth, and power, Oklahomans actively defined and redefined what it meant to be Native American, African American, or white. By telling this story, David Chang contributes to the history of racial construction and nationalism as well as to southern, western, and Native American history.

Author : B.R. Goodwin
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781664226418

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What Remains by B.R. Goodwin Pdf

When Vala’s family is deemed a threat to society by the government, her life is dramatically shifted from that of a normal seventeen-year-old girl, to a life on the run. Along with a small group of friends, she embarks on a journey to find her captured brother and learns to trust the one who has seemingly led her through the wilderness all along.

Author : Roger Pinckney
Publisher : River's Edge Media, LLC
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781940595634

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Crying in the Wilderness by Roger Pinckney Pdf

Author : Pete Fromm
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2000-09-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0312263635

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Night Swimming by Pete Fromm Pdf

This collection of break-out short stories by Pete Fromm is "another stellar collection that showcases Fromm's impressive dexterity".--"The Seattle Post-Intelligencer".

Author : Joshua Aaron PIKER,Joshua Aaron Piker
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674042131

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Okfuskee by Joshua Aaron PIKER,Joshua Aaron Piker Pdf

A work of original scholarship and compelling sweep, Okfuskee is a community-centered Indian history with an explicitly comparativist agenda. Joshua Piker uses the history of Okfuskee, an eighteenth-century Creek town, to reframe standard narratives of both Native and American experiences. This unique, detailed perspective on local life in a Native society allows us to truly understand both the pervasiveness of colonialism's influence and the inventiveness of Native responses. At the same time, by comparing the Okfuskees' experiences to those of their contemporaries in colonial British America, the book provides a nuanced discussion of the ways in which Native and Euro-American histories intersected with, and diverged from, each other. Piker examines the diplomatic ties that developed between the Okfuskees and their British neighbors; the economic implications of the Okfuskees' shifting world view; the integration of British traders into the town; and the shifting gender and generational relationships in the community. By both providing an in-depth investigation of a colonial-era Indian town in Indian country and placing the Okfuskees within the processes central to early American history, Piker offers a Native history with important implications for American history.

Author : Pete Fromm
Publisher : Lyons Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1558212051

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Indian Creek Chronicles by Pete Fromm Pdf

The author relates his experiences of when he took a job with the Idaho Department of Fish and Game to watch 2 1/2 million salmon eggs one winter in an isolated area of the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness

Author : Lalita Tademy
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781476753041

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Citizens Creek by Lalita Tademy Pdf

Buying his freedom after serving as a translator during the American Indian wars, Cow Tom builds a remarkable life and legacy that is sustained by his courageous granddaughter.

Author : Pete Fromm
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1597095389

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If Not for this by Pete Fromm Pdf

After meeting at a boatman's bash on the Snake River, river runners Maddy and Dalt embark on a lifelong love affair. They marry on the banks of the Buffalo Fork, sure they'll live there the rest of their days. Forced by the economics of tourism to leave Wyoming, they start a new adventure, opening their own river business in Ashland, Oregon: Halfmoon Whitewater. They prosper there, leading rafting trips and guiding fishermen into the wilds of Mongolia and Russia. But when Maddy, laid low by dizzy spells, with a mono that isn't quite mono, both discovers she is pregnant and is diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, they realize their adventure is just beginning. Navigating hazards that dwarf any of the rapids they've faced together, Maddy narrates her life with Dalt the way she lives it: undaunted, courageous, in the present tense. Driven by her irresistible voice, full of wit and humor and defiance, If Not For This is a love story like no other.

Author : Pete Fromm
Publisher : Globe Pequot
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Domestic fiction, American
ISBN : 1558217444

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Blood Knot by Pete Fromm Pdf

With Blood Knot, award-winning author Pete Fromm confirms his place as one of the outstanding literary talents mining the natural world. In this powerful collection, he lures startling drama from seemingly still surfaces with ten of his finest fishing stories: a wedding in the ice-cold rush of a Montana river symbolizes the promise and fear of marriage, a young 'hood' shows his true colors when he takes his girlfriend's little brother out fishing for muskie, and an eight-year-old boy is moved cross-country, away from his father, only to practice knots on the bedpost in anticipation of their reunion and return to the river. Peter Fromm's tales bond his characters not only to each other but also to nature and the bittersweet truth of their very existence. Although the fish range from the smallest beaver-pond brook trout to the hulking, invisible paddlefish, in the end it's the people - as varied and vulnerable as the fish they pursue - who will draw you into their lives and hold on to a piece of you long after the stories end.