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Kate’s 2¢: “American Dirt” by Jeanine Cummins
“American Dirt” by Jeanine Cummins
saying…
I downloaded “American Dirt” from BookShare. The story was read by synthesized speech and, I must admit, its Spanish pronunciationis even worse than my own.
My emotions ran from horror to elation and everything in-between as I listened to this gripping and compelling story. I can understand that each of the travelers has this/her own reason for leaving their homeland. Can they not understand that by flooding our borders, we may not be able to accommodate all of them without sinking our own ship?
A few take-aways:
–The author is more interested in stories of the victims, rather than the perpetraters…In characters who suffer inconceivable hardships.
— The violence presented in many stories can feed into the misconception about the Mexican people.
–How would you live in a place that began to collapse around you?
–At worst, we tend to see the migrants as resource draining criminals…at best, a sort of helpless, impoverished faceless, brown mass.
–We seldom think of them as our fellow human beings.
–After reading this story, when we see migrants on the news, we may begin to see these people as people.
–También de este lado hay sueños. On this side, too, there are dreams.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jeanine Cummins (born December 6, 1974)[1][failed verification] is an American author of Irish and Puerto Rican heritage. [2][3] She has written four books: a memoir titled A Rip in Heaven and three novels, The Outside Boy, The Crooked Branch, and American Dirt.[4] American Dirt was a notable success, selling over 3 million copies in 37 languages. However, it also gained controversy within the American literary community for its perceived cultural exploitation.
Early life[edit]
Cummins was born in Rota, Spain, where her father, Gene, was stationed as a member of the US Navy.[5] Her mother, Kay, was a nurse.[6] Cummins spent her childhood in Gaithersburg, Maryland and attended Towson University, where she majored in English and communications. In 1993 Cummins was a finalist in the Rose of Tralee festival, an international event that is celebrated among Irish communities all over the world; at each festival in Tralee, Ireland, a woman is crowned the Rose.[7]
Career[edit]
After university, Cummins spent two years working as a bartender in Belfast, Northern Ireland, before moving back to the United States in 1997 and beginning work at Penguin in New York City.[3] She worked in the publishing industry for 10 years.[8]
Her 2004 memoir, A Rip in Heaven, focuses on the attempted murder of her brother, Tom, and the murder of two of her cousins on the Chain of Rocks Bridge in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1991, when Cummins was 16.[1] She declined offers for film rights to the book.[9] She has said that her cousin Julie’s death specifically inspired her to become a writer, as Julie had been “a really gifted writer” and Cummins’s role model growing up, and Cummins felt a sense of responsibility to carry on her legacy.[9]
Her next two books were novels that explore Irish history. The Outside Boy (2010) is about Pavee travellers. The Crooked Branch (2013) is about the Great Famine of Ireland.[9] These books were published for the first time in Ireland in 2020.[7]
Cummins’ 2020 novel, American Dirt, tells the story of a mother and bookstore owner in Acapulco, Mexico, who attempts to escape to the United States with her son after her husband and her entire family is killed by a drug cartel.[10][11] In 2018 the book was sold to Flatiron after a three-day bidding war between nine publishers that resulted in a seven-figure deal.[12][3] From 2018 until its publication in January 2020, the book was heavily marketed, receiving many positive reviews and a coveted book release day endorsement by Oprah Winfrey as the 83rd book chosen for Oprah’s Book Club.[13][3] The novel eventually sold over 3 million copies, in 37 languages.[14]
Approximately one month prior to release of the book, a negative review from Latina author Myriam Gurba was published online.[15][16] Then, a week before release of the book, a string of critical reviews was published, including a review in The New York Times.[17][18][15] In these reviews and a letter signed by 142 writers, Cummins was accused of exploitation and inaccuracy in her portrayals of both Mexicans and the migrant experience.[19] Some also claimed that Cummins had previously identified as white but re-branded herself as Latina with the publication of the book, pointing to a line in a 2015 New York Times op-ed in which Cummins stated “I am white.”[16] Most did not refer to the entire statement in the op-ed, however, which was about the murder of Cummins’s cousins by a group of three black and one white men and included the line “I am white. The grandmother I shared with Julie and Robin was Puerto Rican, and their father is half Lebanese. But in every practical way, my family is mostly white.”[1] The controversy around Jeanine’s book was used to launch the organization and hashtag #DignidadLiteraria to highlight and address a perceived lack of diversity in the U.S. publishing industry.[20]
On January 30, 2020 Cummins’ book tour was cancelled. Flatiron Books’ President Bob Miller wrote, “Based on specific threats to booksellers and the author, we believe there exists real peril to their safety.”[21] The publisher later clarified that these were not death threats, but rather other threats made against Cummins, against booksellers hosting her, and against moderators participating in the events.[22]
Cummins has indicated that her next book might be set in Puerto Rico.[7]
Family[edit]
Cummins’ husband is an Irish immigrant who lived illegally in the U.S. for 10 years.[23] The couple have two daughters, and have also been foster parents.[24][25]
From BookShare:
Lydia Quixano Pérez lives in the Mexican city of Acapulco. She runs a bookstore. She has a son, Luca, the love of her life, and a wonderful husband who is a journalist. And while there are cracks beginning to show in Acapulco because of the drug cartels, her life is, by and large, fairly comfortable.
Even though she knows they’ll never sell, Lydia stocks some of her all-time favorite books in her store. And then one day a man enters the shop to browse and comes up to the register with a few books he would like to buy—two of them her favorites.
Javier is erudite. He is charming. And, unbeknownst to Lydia, he is the jefe of the newest drug cartel that has gruesomely taken over the city. When Lydia’s husband’s tell-all profile of Javier is published, none of their lives will ever be the same.
Forced to flee, Lydia and eight-year-old Luca soon find themselves miles and worlds away from their comfortable middle-class existence. Instantly transformed into migrants, Lydia and Luca ride la bestia—trains that make their way north toward the United States, which is the only place Javier’s reach doesn’t extend. As they join the countless people trying to reach el norte, Lydia soon sees that everyone is running from something. But what exactly are they running to? American Dirt will leave readers utterly changed. It is a literary achievement filled with poignancy, drama, and humanity on every page. It is one of the most important books for our times.
A New York Times Bestseller
Copyright:
2020
Book Details
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Publisher Quality
Book Size:
400 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781250209771
Related ISBNs:
9781250209764, 9781250805461
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Flatiron Books
Date of Addition:
01/31/22
Copyrighted By:
Jeanine Cummins
Adult content:
No
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English
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No
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Kate’s 2¢: “Edge of valor: a Todd Ingram novel” by John J. Gobbell
“Edge of valor: a Todd Ingram novel” by John J. Gobbell
This was a book chosen at random by NLS and sent to me on a cartridge that contained seven books.
Well, there certainly was a lot of action and intrigue in this story.
John J. Gobbell is an American author and former member of the U.S. Navy. He is best known as the writer of Todd Ingram series of books which began in 2019 with the release of The Last Lieutenant.
Gobbell joined the Navy after he graduated from the University of Southern California. He saw active duty and fought the battle of Yankee Station when they formed a protective destroyer screen around the carrier USS Hancock in the South China Sea. After his naval career, he worked as an executive recruit. In his free time, he sails in Southern California yacht racing regattas.
From NLS/BARD/LOC:
Edge of valor: a Todd Ingram novel DB110008
Gobbell, John J Reading time: 14 hours, 53 minutes.
John Haag
Historical Fiction
War Stories
“Todd Ingram has just saved his ship from a kamikaze raid. While seeking repairs in Okinawa, he hears news of the war’s end…and then receives mysterious orders to defuse an imminent Soviet attack. In the process, he is to rescue a Red Cross representative with irrefutable proof of Japanese war crimes. The assignment brings him face-to-face with a Soviet adversary from his past—and a Japanese garrison determined to stop him. Three weeks ago, Todd was fighting the Japanese, and the Russians were supposed to be his ally. Now he doesn’t know whom to trust…and as his shipmates prepare to return to their loved ones, Todd’s war continues.” — Provided by publisher. Some violence and some strong language.
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Kate’s 2¢: “Every Last Secret” by A. R. Torre A R
“Every Last Secret” by A. R. Torre A R
saying…
Maggy Stacy did a good job of reading this for us. I love the ending.
from: www.bookbrowse.com/biographies/index.cfm/author_number/x17026/a-r-torre
A. R. Torre is a pseudonym for New York Times bestselling author Alessandra Torre. Torre is an award-winning author of more than twenty-six novels. She has been featured in such publications as ELLE and ELLE UK and has guest-blogged for Cosmopolitan and the Huffington Post.
Author Alessandra Torre is very popular because of her works and often features in various publications along with Jenny McCarthy such as Dirty Sexy Funny and Elle UK. She considers herself to be an indie and traditionally published author. Her main focus lies mainly towards writing erotic suspense and contemporary erotic romance stories.
from NLS/BARD/LOC:
Every last secret DB103215
Torre, A. R. Reading time: 9 hours, 28 minutes.
Read by Maggy Stacy.
Suspense Fiction
Psychological Fiction
Cat and her husband William live in the privileged California community of Atherton. When new neighbors move in, Cat does the right thing and welcomes them to the neighborhood. But wife Neena soon sets her eyes on William and everything Cat has. Except Neena doesn’t know Cat’s secrets. 2020.
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Kate’s 2¢: “Floating coast: an environmental history of the Bering Strait”
by Bathsheba Demuth
“Floating coast: an environmental history of the Bering Strait”
This was a book chosen at random by NLS and sent to me on a cartridge that contained seven books.
–An exploration between Capitalism, Communism, and Arctic ecology since the dawn of the Industrial Age…through the story of animals and resources.
–Through the lense of the natural world, she views human life and economics a fundamentally about ccles of energy.
Emily Ellet did a good job of reading this book for us.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification.
Bathsheba Rose Demuth[1] is an environmental historian; she is the Dean’s Associate Professor of History and Environment and Society at Brown University.[2] She specializes in the study of the Russian and North American Arctic. Her interest in this region was triggered when she moved north of the Arctic Circle in the Yukon, at the age of 18, and learned a wide range of survival skills in the taiga and tundra.
Early life and education[edit]
Demuth was raised in Decorah, Iowa; she was homeschooled.[3]
Demuth obtained a Bachelor of Arts in Trauma Studies from Brown University in 2006; she completed a masters at Brown in international development in 2007. Demuth pursued doctoral studies at the University of California, Berkeley, receiving her PhD in history in 2016.
Career[edit]
Demuth is best known for her book Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait. The book was published in 2019 by W. W. Norton & Company and has won numerous awards, including the American Society for Environmental History’s 2020 George Perkins Marsh Prize for the best book in environmental history and the John H. Dunning Prize from the American Historical Association for the best book in American history.[4] The book was also nominated for the Pushkin Book Prize.[5] Since 2022, she has been an associate dean of history and environment and society at Brown University.[6]
From NLS/BARD/LOC:
Floating coast: an environmental history of the Bering Strait DB96869
Demuth, Bathsheba Reading time: 12 hours, 53 minutes.
Emily Ellet
Science and Technology
Environmental historian chronicles the changes experienced by the Bering Strait–the strip of sea separating Alaska from Russia–from 1848 to 1990. Sections are the sea, shore, land, underground, and ocean. Topics include whale populations, arctic sea ice, the tundra, seismic activity, and the impact of whaling on the food chain. 2019.
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Kate’s 2¢: “The grand biocentric design: how life creates reality” by Robert Paul Lanzaand; Bob Berman; Matej Pavšič
“The grand biocentric design: how life creates reality” by Robert Paul Lanzaand; Bob Berman; Matej Pavšič
This was a book chosen at random by NLS and sent to me on a cartridge that contained seven books.
I must admit that I’m not far enough along this leg of my journey to understand this book.
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The grand biocentric design: how life creates reality DB103338
Lanza, R. P, (Robert Paul); Berman, Bob; Pavšič, Matej Reading time: 8 hours, 20 minutes.
Peter Ganim
Science and Technology
Medical doctor Lanza, theoretical physicist Pavsic, and astronomer Berman present the theory of biocentrism which posits that life creates reality. Discusses the history of physics and prominent theories like Quantum Theory, examines consciousness in humans and animals, and what it means to construct reality. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2020.
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Kate’s 2¢: “The Good Liar” by Catherine McKenzie
“The Good Liar” by Catherine McKenzie
I enjoyed listening to Emily Ellet read this story. I’m reminded of the saying: Oh, the webs we weave.
www.CatherineMcKenzie.com
Catherine McKenzie was born and raised in Montreal, Canada. A graduate of McGill in History and Law, Catherine practiced law for twenty years before leaving the practice to write full time. An avid runner, skier and tennis player, she’s the author of numerous bestsellers including HIDDEN, FRACTURED, THE GOOD LIAR and I’LL NEVER TELL. Her works have been translated into multiple languages and PLEASE JOIN US and I’LL NEVER TELL have all been optioned for development into television series.
Her next novel, HAVE YOU SEEN HER, is releasing on June 27, 2023!
From NLS/BARD/LOC:
The good liar DB90857
McKenzie, Catherine. Reading time: 10 hours, 17 minutes.
Read by Emily Ellet.
Suspense Fiction
Psychological Fiction
A year ago, an explosion destroyed a Chicago building. Running late to meet her husband, Cecily survived, but she is not exactly a grieving widow. Although presumed dead, Kaitlyn instead fled to Canada. And Franny was determined at all costs to connect with her birth mom, who worked in the building. Strong language. 2018.
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Kate’s 2¢: “All the light we cannot see: a novel” by Anthony Doerr
“All the light we cannot see: a novel” by Anthony Doerr
saying…
Jill Fox did a very good job of reading this lengthy story. This was the second time I enjoyed spending the time to listen to the novel, although, the time changes of foreshadowing, current time, then, back flashes were sometimes confusing.
A few take-aways:
–To shut your eyes is to guess nothing of blindness…there exists an older, more raw world.
–Open your eyes and see what you can with them, before they close forever.
–Was it true that Captain Nemo never left the Nautilus?
–The keeper of the stone would live forever, but …misfortune would fall on all those he loved.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Anthony Doerr is an American author of novels and short stories. He gained widespread recognition for his 2014 novel All the Light We Cannot See, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
Early life and education[edit]
Raised in Cleveland, Ohio,[1] Doerr attended the nearby University School, graduating in 1991. He then majored in history at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, graduating in 1995. He earned an MFA from Bowling Green State University.[2]
Career[edit]
Doerr’s first book was a collection of short stories called The Shell Collector (2002). Many of the stories take place in countries within Africa and New Zealand, where he has worked and lived. His first novel, About Grace, was released in 2004. His memoir, Four Seasons in Rome, was published in 2007, and his second collection of short stories, Memory Wall, was published in 2010.
Doerr’s second novel, All the Light We Cannot See, is set in occupied France during World War II and was published in 2014. It received significant critical acclaim and was a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction.[3] The book was a New York Times bestseller, and was named by the newspaper as a notable book of 2014.[4] It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2015. It was runner-up for the 2015 Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Fiction [5] and won the 2015 Ohioana Library Association Book Award for Fiction.[6]
Doerr writes a column on science books for The Boston Globe and is a contributor to The Morning News, an online magazine.
From 2007 to 2010, he was the Writer in Residence for the state of Idaho.[7][8]
Doerr’s third novel, Cloud Cuckoo Land, follows three story lines, scattered throughout time: 13-year-old Anna and Omeir, an orphaned seamstress and a cursed boy, on opposite sides of formidable city walls during the 1453 siege of Constantinople; teenage idealist Seymour and octogenarian Zeno in an attack on a public library in present-day Idaho; and Konstance, decades from now, who turns to the oldest stories to guide her community in peril.[9] Cloud Cuckoo Land was released September 28, 2021. It was shortlisted for the 2021 National Book Award for Fiction.[10]
Personal life[edit]
Doerr is married, has twin sons and lives in Boise, Idaho.[11]
From NLS/BARD/LOC:
All the light we cannot see: a novel DB79182
Doerr, Anthony. Reading time: 16 hours, 3 minutes.
Read by Jill Fox. A production of the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress.
Bestsellers
War Stories
When Paris is invaded by the Nazis, Marie-Laure LeBlanc’s father evacuates her to St. Malo to stay with her great-uncle. Blind since the age of six, Marie-Laure must learn the town by the scale model her father has left. Then, the Germans arrive. Violence, and descriptions of sex. Bestseller. 2014.
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Kate’s 2¢: “Winter solstice” by Rosamunde Pilcher
“Winter solstice” by Rosamunde Pilcher
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Vanessa Maroney did a good job of reading this lengthy story for the NLS. Her British accent fit right in with the characters.
How does this sound for a picnic feast? Hot soup laced with Sherry from mugs, fresh rolls filled with thick slices of ham and English mustard, a bacon and egg quiche, chicken drumsticks, tomato salad, crisp green apples and chunck of cheddar cheese, plus a flask of boiling hot coffee.
It took a long time to introduce each character, but once they finally came together in the Estate House, all ended as it should. I enjoyed this story.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rosamunde Pilcher, OBE (née Scott; 22 September 1924 – 6 February 2019)[2] was a British novelist, best known for her sweeping novels set in Cornwall. Her books have sold over 60 million copies worldwide.[3] Early in her career she was published under the pen name Jane Fraser. In 2001, she received the Corine Literature Prize’s Weltbild Readers’ Prize for Winter Solstice.
Personal life[edit]
She was born Rosamunde Scott on 22 September 1924 in Lelant, Cornwall. Her parents were Helen (née Harvey) and Charles Scott, a British civil servant.[2] Just before her birth her father was posted in Burma, while her mother remained in England.[4] She attended the School of St. Clare in Penzance and Howell’s School Llandaff before going on to Miss Kerr-Sanders’ Secretarial College.[5] She began writing when she was seven, and published her first short story when she was 18.[6]
From 1943 until 1946, Pilcher served with the Women’s Royal Naval Service. On 7 December 1946, she married Graham Hope Pilcher,[5] a war hero and jute industry executive who died in March 2009.[7] They moved to Dundee, Scotland. They had two daughters and two sons.[8] Her son, Robin Pilcher, is also a novelist.[9]
Pilcher died on 6 February 2019, at the age of 94, following a stroke.[10]
Writing career[edit]
In 1949, Pilcher’s first book, a romance novel, was published by Mills and Boon, under the pseudonym Jane Fraser. She published a further ten novels under that name. In 1955, she also began writing under her real name with Secret to Tell. By 1965 she had dropped the pseudonym and was signing her own name to all of her novels.[5]
The breakthrough in Pilcher’s career came in 1987, when she wrote the family saga The Shell Seekers, her fourteenth novel under her own name.[10] It focuses on an elderly British woman, Penelope Keeling, who relives her life in flashbacks, and on her relationship with her adult children. Keeling’s life was not extraordinary, but it spans “a time of huge importance and change in the world.”[6] The novel describes the everyday details of what life during World War II was like for some of those who lived in Britain.[6] The Shell Seekers sold around ten million copies and was translated into more than forty languages.[2] It was adapted for the stage by Terence Brady and Charlotte Bingham.[8] Pilcher was said to be among the highest-earning women in Britain by the mid-1990s.[11]
Her other major novels include September (1990), Coming Home (1995) and Winter Solstice (2000).[10][12] Coming Home won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by Romantic Novelists’ Association in 1996.[13] The president of the association in 2019, the romance writer Katie Fforde, considers Pilcher to be “groundbreaking as she was the first to bring family sagas to the wider public”.[10] Felicity Bryan, in her obituary for The Guardian, writes that Pilcher took the romance genre to “an altogether higher, wittier level”; she praises Pilcher’s work for its “grittiness and fearless observation” and comments that it is often more prosaic than romantic.[2]
Pilcher retired from writing in 2000.[5] Two years later, in the 2002 New Year Honours, she was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to literature.[14][15]
From NLS/BARD/LOC:
Winter solstice / DB50844
Pilcher, Rosamunde Reading time: 19 hours, 25 minutes.
Vanessa Maroney A production of the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress.
Human Relations
Bestsellers
Elfrida, a retired actress; Oscar, a recent widower; Carrie, recovering from a love affair; Lucy, Carrie’s niece; and Sam, deserted by his wife, spend the winter solstice in a Scottish cottage, where they form a lasting bond that allows them to recover from their various challenges and losses. Bestseller. 2000.
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Kate’s 2¢: “Lost in the Yellowstone: Truman Everts’s thirty-seven days of peril” by Truman Everts
“Lost in the Yellowstone: Truman Everts’s thirty-seven days of peril” by Truman Everts
Imagine living to tell about it! The descriptions of the scenery of those days is something that, apparently, hasn’t changed all that much. It would be great to visit it in its pristine state.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Truman C. Everts (1816 – February 16, 1901) was the first federal tax assessor for the Montana Territory and a member of the 1870 Washburn–Langford–Doane Expedition, which explored the area which later became Yellowstone National Park. He was lost in the wilderness for 37 days during the expedition and a year later wrote about his ordeal for Scribner’s Monthly.[1]
Everts was one of six brothers born in Burlington, Vermont to a Great Lakes ship captain.[2] During the American Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln appointed Everts as assessor of Internal Revenue for the Montana Territory, a position he held between July 15, 1864 and February 16, 1870.[2]
“Thirty-Seven Days of Peril”[edit]
In 1870, Everts, a former assessor for the territory of Montana, joined a expedition led by Henry D. Washburn and Nathaniel P. Langford into the wilderness that would later become Yellowstone National Park.[3]
After falling behind the rest of the expedition on September 9, 1870, Everts lost the packhorse which was carrying most of his supplies. Without food or equipment, he attempted to retrace the expedition’s route along the southern shore of Yellowstone Lake to rejoin the expedition. Everts faced starvation, trauma, snow storms and dangerous animals. He ate the roots of thistle plants to stay alive. The plant was renamed “Everts’ Thistle” after him.[1][4]
During the expedition, Langford kept a diary recounting efforts to locate Everts. The expedition increased their fire and shot their guns hoping to signal Everts, to no avail. It was agreed within the expedition that if a member of the party become separated, that the man would meet the party at the southwest arm of the lake, but Everts could not be found at that location.[5]
On October 16, more than a month after his separation from the group, two local mountain men – “Yellowstone Jack” Baronett and George A. Pritchett – found Everts, suffering from frostbite, burn wounds from thermal vents and his campfire, and other injuries suffered during his ordeal, so malnourished he weighed only 90 pounds (41kg).[6] Baronett and Pritchett were part of a search party which had been sent from Montana to find Everts’ remains. They discovered him, mumbling and delirious, more than 50 miles (80 km) from where he had first become lost.[6] One man stayed with Everts to nurse him back to health while the other walked 75 miles (121 km) for help.
Everts’ rescuers brought him to Bozeman, where he recovered. The next year, Everts’ personal account of the experience, “Thirty-Seven Days of Peril”, was published in Scribner’s Monthly.[7] The story of his survival became national news and contributed a great deal of publicity to the movement to preserve the Yellowstone area as the country’s first national park.[2] In spite of their assistance, Everts denied Baronett and Pritchett payment of the reward, claiming he could have made it out of the mountains on his own.[2][8]
Henry D. Washburn, as surveyor general of Montana, named a peak near Mammoth Hot Springs “Mount Everts” shortly after Everts’ rescue. During the expedition, Washburn had named a peak in the Thorofare region south of Yellowstone Lake for Everts, but later changed it to the current peak, believing it to be near the location of the rescue. In fact Everts was rescued much farther north, near Blacktail Deer Creek.[9]
After the two expeditions and the fame from his article, Everts was offered the position of first superintendent of the newly established Yellowstone National Park, but he declined since it did not include a salary. He later moved to Hyattsville, Maryland and worked in the U.S. Post Office. He died there in 1901,[2] in his home, of pneumonia.[6]
From: Gravelly Range · Gallatin Wildlife Association
Lee Whittlesey recently retired as the historian for Yellowstone National Park. Lee has studied and written about Yellowstone for the past forty years and he is an expert on Yellowstone’s vast literature. He is the author of 25 journal articles and author or co-author of eleven books including Death in Yellowstone and Yellowstone Waterfalls. With Dr. Paul Schullery, he has engaged in a 25 year project: The History of Mammals in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, 1796-1881, resulting in a two volume book to be published in 2019. Since 1996, he has been Adjunct Professor of History at Montana State University and in 2014 was awarded an honorary doctorate in history by MSU. In a two -part interview, Lee provides a historical picture of Yellowstone and tells some stories involving wildlife passed down from the tribes of Indians who inhabited the Park area.
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Lost in the Yellowstone: Truman Everts’s thirty-seven days of peril. DB107288
Everts, Truman; Whittlesey, Lee H Reading time: 1 hour, 54 minutes.
Jack Sondericker
The West
Biography
Travel
This fictionalized account explores how, in September 1870, Truman Everts was separated from one of the first exploratory parties in what is now Yellowstone National Park. With little food, equipment, or cold-weather clothing, Everts spent more than a month wandering the wilderness. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 1871.
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Kate’s 2¢: “Good As Gone” by Amy Gentry
“Good As Gone” by Amy Gentry
Very interesting. By having the characters change names, it is almost impossible to keep track of who is who. Although, I suppose that is the point.
From the WEB:
Amy GENTRY is the author of the feminist thrillers Good as Gone, Last Woman Standing, and Bad Habits, as well as Boys for Pele, a book of music criticism in the 33 1/3 series. Her book reviews and essays have appeared in numerous outlets, including the Chicago Tribune, Salon, the Paris Review, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and the Austin Chronicle. Her interests include cake decorating and horror films, and her favorite movie is The Women (1939). She holds a PhD in English from the University of Chicago, where she wrote her dissertation on miniatures and modernism, and lives in Austin, Texas.
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Good as gone DB85737
Gentry, Amy. Reading time: 7 hours, 50 minutes.
Read by Kristin Allison.
Suspense Fiction
Mystery and Detective Stories
Psychological Fiction
Eight years ago, thirteen-year-old Julie was abducted from her bedroom. Julie miraculously returns, but her story doesn’t make much sense. While her mother struggles with an ex-cop’s suspicions, alternating chapters take the returned Julie backwards through her ordeal. Strong language, some violence, and some explicit descriptions of sex. 2016.
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