"Dogs, like humans, have memories, instincts, fears, and loyalties. But, as far as we know, dogs do not get swept up in nostalgia, speculation, or self-analysis. Although they have hopes, they are not driven by regrets. In Crossing the Plains with Bruno, Annick Smith weaves together a memoir of travel and relationship, western history and family history, human love and animal love centering around a two week road trip across the Great Pl ..."
Hearth(Reprint) A Global Conversation on Identity, Community, and Place by AnnickSmith, Susan O'connor, Milkweed Editions Paperback, 280 Pages, Published 2019 by Milkweed Editions ISBN-13: 978-1-57131-380-5, ISBN: 1-57131-380-X
"A multicultural anthology, edited by Susan O’Connor and Annick Smith, about the enduring importance and shifting associations of the hearth in our world. A hearth is many things: a place for solitude; a source of identity; something we make and share with others; a history of ourselves and our homes. It is the fixed center we return to. It is just as intrinsically portable. It is, in short, the perfect metaphor for what we seek in these ..."
In This We Are Native(1st Edition) On Going Away and Coming Home by AnnickSmith Paperback, 312 Pages, Published 2004 by The Lyons Press ISBN-13: 978-1-59228-332-3, ISBN: 1-59228-332-2
"Coming home from what had seemed exile in middlebrow Spokane, I joined with
wildlife filmmaker Beth Ferris in filming a portrait of Dick Hugo. ..."
"A multicultural anthology, edited by Susan O’Connor and Annick Smith, about the enduring importance and shifting associations of the hearth in our world. A hearth is many things: a place for solitude; a source of identity; something we make and share with others; a history of ourselves and our homes. It is the fixed center we return to. It is just as intrinsically portable. It is, in short, the perfect metaphor for what we seek in these ..."
"It is hard to love the high, cold plains of the American West. They are vast and harsh and demanding. And perhaps because they are so hard to love, prairies challenge the imaginative mind and the adventurous heart. The Wide Open reveals how some of the most interesting and accomplished writers and photographers in the country have met that challenge and given the genius of the prairie a vision and a voice. Their stories are as diverse a ..."
"Mildred Walker was immediately recognized for the quality of her first fiction in 1934. Fireweed won the prestigious Avery and Jule Hopwood Award. The setting is a small lumber town in Upper Michigan, the stomping grounds of Paul Bunyan and the giants of Swedish, German, and Finnish lore. Young Celie and her husband, Joe Linsen, are the children of Scandinavian pioneers. Radios and flivvers have enlarged her world, and she longs to esca ..."
In This We are Native(1st Edition) Memoirs and Journeys by AnnickSmith Hardcover, 312 Pages, Published 2001 by Lyons Press ISBN-13: 978-1-58574-246-2, ISBN: 1-58574-246-5
"Now Dave was having a hard time keeping his face in order. He fumbled with the
brown-paper wrapping that held our gift of flowers. I could tell he was grateful to
have something to do with his hands. "Oh, David!" Flossie cradled the thorny ..."
"This book is an anthology of some of the greatest stories and storytellers of the American West. Through eight chapters and over 800 pages, 150 writers present scores of myths, stories, poems, essays, and journals that document Montana's significant literary tradition. The selections range from pre-white Indian days to the present, and, taken as a whole, they offer a powerful microcosm of the entire western experience.The chapters, ea ..."
Law of the Range(1st Edition) Portraits of Old-Time Brand Inspectors by Stephen Collector, AnnickSmith Hardcover, 120 Pages, Published 1991 by Clark City Press ISBN-13: 978-0-944439-45-6, ISBN: 0-944439-45-4
"More than a decade ago, Stephen Collector began photographing brand inspectors throughout the West. This simple curiosity gradually became an obsession, resulting in Law of the Range, runner-up as the best Art Book in the Rocky Mountain region. Collector's goal was to achieve the portrait as landscape, and to know the landscape and its people. His black-and-white photographs document beautifully a part of the West missing and presumed d ..."
In This We Are Native(Large Print) by AnnickSmith Hardcover, 320 Pages, Published 2002 by Isis Large Print Books Large Print ISBN-13: 978-0-7531-9758-5, ISBN: 0-7531-9758-8
"Smith unflinchingly tells of her young husband's final year. After an unsuccessful attempt to break into the movies in Hollywood, they return to Montana's Blackfoot River Valley just in time. His death left her with four sons to raise alone. But this is a glorious celebration, transcending grief. Annick Smith regales us with the joys of Huckleberry gathering, the stealth of the mountain lion, and the immense satisfaction of the intimacy ..."
Homestead(1st Edition) (The World As Home) by AnnickSmith Hardcover, 211 Pages, Published 1995 by Milkweed Editions ISBN-13: 978-1-57131-206-8, ISBN: 1-57131-206-4
"Describes how the author and her family built a wilderness homestead in 1959 Montana that grew into a flourishing ranch and recounts the many adventures that found their roots in early American western and pioneering traditions. IP. "
In This We Are Native(Large Print) (Isis (Paperback )) by AnnickSmith Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2002 by Isis Large Print ISBN-13: 978-0-7531-9759-2, ISBN: 0-7531-9759-6
"Smith unflinchingly tells of her young husband's final year. After an unsuccessful attempt to break into the movies in Hollywood, they return to Montana's Blackfoot River Valley just in time. His death left her with four sons to raise alone. But this is a glorious celebration, transcending grief. Annick Smith regales us with the joys of Huckleberry gathering, the stealth of the mountain lion, and the immense satisfaction of the intimacy ..."
Homestead (The World As Home) by AnnickSmith Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 1996 by Milkweed Editions ISBN-13: 978-1-57131-213-6, ISBN: 1-57131-213-7
"Describes how the author and her family built a wilderness homestead in 1959 Montana that grew into a flourishing ranch and recounts the many adventures that found their roots in early American western and pioneering traditions. IP. "
The Last Best Place(1st Edition) A Montana Anthology (A Montana Centennial Book) by William Kittredge, AnnickSmith, James Welch Hardcover, 1,158 Pages, Published 1988 by Montana Historical Society Press ISBN-13: 978-0-917298-16-5, ISBN: 0-917298-16-0
"This book is an anthology of some of the greatest stories and storytellers of the American West. Through eight chapters and over 800 pages, 150 writers present scores of myths, stories, poems, essays, and journals that document Montana’s significant literary tradition. The selections range from pre-white Indian days to the present, and, taken as a whole, they offer a powerful microcosm of the entire western experience.The chapters, each ..."
"FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE IN GENERAL NONFICTION WINNER OF THE NATIONAL OUTDOOR BOOK AWARD A CHICAGO TRIBUNE TOP TEN BOOK OF 2018 A GUARDIAN, NPR’s SCIENCE FRIDAY, PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, AND LIBRARY JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF 2018 Hailed as “deeply felt” (New York Times), “a revelation” (Pacific Standard), and “the book on climate change and sea levels that was missing” (Chicago Tribune), Rising is both a highly original work of lyric report ..."
Big Bluestem A Journey into the Tallgrass by AnnickSmith, Harvey Payne, Carol Haralson Hardcover, 304 Pages, Published 1996 by Council Oak Books Illustrated ISBN-13: 978-1-57178-048-5, ISBN: 1-57178-048-3
"The Nature Conservancy has begun an ecological experiment on one of North America's last remaining expanses of grasslands. Beyond simply conserving the place, they are studying it and shaping it anewbringing back bison and seeding with fire to liberate the biodiversity of a land never broken by the plow. Writer Smith was employed to present what is known and being researched concerning the natural ecosystem of the Osage tallgrass prairi ..."
"A lyrical and nostalgic film from director Robert Redford (Quiz Show, Ordinary People), based on the popular autobiographical novel by Norman MacLean, A River Runs Through It shows the best that modern filmmaking has to offer. The film chronicles two brothers coming of age in early-20th-century Missoula, Montana, under the stern tutelage of their minister father, played by Tom Skerritt (Top Gun). Their father instills in them a love of ..."
Last Best Place(1st Edition) by William Kittredge, AnnickSmith Hardcover, 1,182 Pages, Published 1988 by University Of Washington Press ISBN-13: 978-0-295-96690-8, ISBN: 0-295-96690-4
"This book is an anthology of some of the greatest stories and storytellers of the American West."
The Last Best Place(1st Edition) A Montana Anthology (A Montana Centennial Book) by William Kittredge, AnnickSmith Hardcover, 1,164 Pages, Published 1992 by Twodot ISBN-13: 978-1-56044-155-7, ISBN: 1-56044-155-0
"The book is divided into eight sections with introductory essays by William Bevis, Mary Blew, William Kittredge, William Lang, Richard Roeder, Annick Smith, and James Welch."
Hearth A Global Conversation on Identity, Community, and Place by AnnickSmith, Susan O’Connor 280 Pages, Published 2018 by Milkweed Editions ISBN-13: 978-1-57131-989-0, ISBN: 1-57131-989-1
"Her writing and teaching has been supported by numerous grants and
residencies, including from the New York ... Geffrey Davis is the author of Night
Angler and Revising the Storm, winner of the A. Poulin Jr. Poetry Prize and a
finalist for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. ... She is the author of the novels
Perma Red, which received the American Book Award, and The Lost Journals of
Sacajewea."