"Have you ever thought of living in some remote place, far beyond the end of the tire tracks? A place where tall snow-capped peaks reach for blue sky? Mary and I thought about high country like that for over 30 years. Then we pulled up stakes, loaded our outfit on a string of packhorses and headed up the mountain. At 8,000 feet, we fitched a tent."

"Bird Cloud" is the name the author gave to 640 acres of Wyoming wetlands and prairie and four hundred foot cliffs plunging down to the North Platte River. On the day she first visited, a cloud in the shape of a bird hung in the evening sky. She also saw pelicans, bald eagles, golden eagles, great blue herons, ravens, scores of bluebirds, harriers, kestrels, elk, deer and a dozen antelope. She fell in love with the land, then owned by the Nature Conservancy,...

A vivid portrayal of life in remote, unpredictable country. Kevin Holdsworth ruminates on the guts-or foolishness-it takes to put down roots and raise a family in a merciless environment.

Published posthumously in 1964, A Moveable Feast remains one of Ernest Hemingway's most beloved works. It is his classic memoir of Paris in the 1920s, filled with irreverent portraits of other expatriate luminaries such as F. Scott Fitzgerald and Gertrude Stein; tender memories of his first wife, Hadley; and insightful recollections of his own early experiments with his craft. It is a literary feast, brilliantly evoking the exuberant mood of Paris...