The American West on The Point

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