Myriam Ackley was an elementary teacher for sixteen years. An active mountaineer, she visited all the places she writes about.
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J. McKim Malville is a professor of astronomy at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and an elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for his work
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The power of Lake Superior and the pristine nature of Wisconsin’s Apostle Islands National Lakeshore provide recreational opportunities and challenges for kayakers, boaters, campers, and hikers. When John first kayaked
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Expert paddler Mike Svob has been canoeing and kayaking the rivers of the Midwest for 30 years. He paddled more than a thousand miles to complete this book. A recently
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Barry Reynolds is a true master of flyfishing, with over twenty years experience guiding flyfishers to angling destinations all over the world, including Belize, Brazil, Bahamas, Alaska, and Canada. Barry
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Joy Roulier Sawyer is the author of Tongues of Men and Angels (White Violet Press, 2016) as well as several nonfiction books. Her poetry, essays, and fiction appear in such
Read moreJoe Back
Joe Back was born April 12, 1899, in Montpelier, Ohio. His father was a country doctor who visited his patients by horse and buggy. A lover of horses, he maintained
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Tom McCourt is a native son of the deserts and canyons of eastern Utah. An avid outdoorsman, he has worked as a farmer, a cowboy, a surveyor, a coal miner,
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Dan Johnson, Curator of Native Plants and Associate Director of Horticulture , has been at the Gardens since 1996. Though much of his focus is on xeric and native plants and naturalistic
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Michiel Walter Pesman was the youngest of seven children born on May 28, 1887 in Thesinge, a small farming village near Groningen, Netherlands. At age eighteen he was diagnosed with tuberculosis and was forced
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Pat Kendall, Ph.D., R.D. is a professor and Extension Specialist in the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition and Associate Dean for Research for the College of Applied Human
Read moreCaroline Bancroft
Former president of the Colorado Folklore Society, Bancroft is the original, definitive voice of the Centennial State. An intriguing character herself, Bancroft writes her brief histories and biographies as if
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