“I guess I’m going through a crisis of some sort, at least that’s what people, friends and foe alike, whisper behind my back when I say or do weird things, which have become my style of late,” admits fifty-something Sam Collins.... Read More

“A lot of people describe their wild days as a time when they were experimenting with drugs,” the author observes in this memoir. “Not me, I was into full scale research.” Even that is an understatement. In Not That Well Rounded,... Read More

On Saturday morning, February 27, 1943, workers on the day shift at Bearcreek, Montana’s Smith Mine had been on the job for barely a couple of hours when something went terribly wrong. Suddenly, the author writes, “men battled... Read More

Much of the focus during the 1904—1906 centennial celebration of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark’s 1803—1806 expedition across the western part of the unexplored United States went to their Lemhi Shoshone traveling companion,... Read More

When army wife Beth reads on the Internet about the death of any soldier in Iraq, her initial fear is that one might be her husband, Doug. When it isn’t, she feels relieved, then guilty: “The fallen soldiers might not have been her... Read More

One hot day, famous Indian leader Sitting Bull was resting with his eyes closed in the shade by the river when a woodpecker warned him, “Lie still!” He discovered a huge grizzly bear standing over him, but obeyed the bird, and the... Read More

A high school student passing through the cemetery on her way to class; a foster kid and a dilapidated old airplane; an engaged couple sifting through antiques in an attic; a pioneer woman’s night on the homestead without her husband.... Read More

If a person has been wronged by another, shouldn’t the common course of action for making things right be to forgive and forget? That’s a popular distortion, according to the author. The real process is this: to remember fully and... Read More