This morning on WCAI we talked books about the American West. Clearly we could do an entire year of books about the American West! So many books, so little time, as they say. Author Peter Abrahams joined us and Kathryn Eident sat in for Mindy Todd. If you missed the show, you can listen online anytime!
Kathryn’s Pick
The Little House on the Prairie series by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Peter’s Picks
Chet and Bernie mystery series by Spencer Quinn (aka Peter Abrahams!)
The Journals of Lewis and Clark edited by Bernard DeVoto
Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Money and the Power: the making of Las Vegas and its hold on America by Sally Denton and Roger Morris
My First Summer in the Sierra by John Muir
Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey
The Indifferent Stars Above by Daniel James Brown
Print the Legend: the life and times of John Ford by Scott Eyman
Jill’s Picks
The Frontier in American History by Frederick Jackson Turner
The Library Book by Susan Orlean
When Women Were Birds: fifty-four variations on voice by Terry Tempest Williams
River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the technological wild west by Rebecca Solnit
My Faraway One: selected letters of Georgia O’Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz
Sorrow of the Earth: Buffalo Bill, Sitting Bull and the Tragedy of Show Business by Éric Vuillard
The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather
When Esther Morris Headed West, Women, Wyoming, and the Right to Vote by Connie Nordhielm Wooldrige, illustrated by Jacqueline Rogers
Where I Was From by Joan Didion
“John Wayne: a love song” in Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion
No time for, but you should really read! The Meadow by James Glavin, West by Carys Davies, and Cowboys Are My Weakness: stories by Pam Houston.
Listener Picks
News of the World by Paulette Jiles (Recommended by Steve Junker before we went on the air!)
Old Jules by Mari Sandoz
O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
This House of Sky by Ivan Doig
Last Bus to Wisdom by Ivan Doig