9780295969749
The Last Best Place: A Montana Anthology share button
William Kittredge
Format Paperback
Dimensions 5.87 (w) x 9.46 (h) x 2.58 (d)
Pages 1158
Publisher University of Washington Press
Publication Date June 2003
ISBN 9780295969749
Book ISBN 10 0295969741
About Book
The Last Best Place includes over 230 stories, poems, reminiscences, and reports written by 140 men and women. The book is divided into eight sections with introductory essays by William Bevis, Mary Blew, William Kittredge, William Lang, Richard Roeder, Annick Smith, and James Welch.

This collection of vivid and compelling literature ranges across Montana's literary landscape in descriptions of explorers' discoveries, stories from mining and agricultural frontiers, and powerful memoirs from Native Americans, as well as unforgettable images created by contemporary writers.

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Montana's literary landscape in descriptions of explorers' discoveries, stories from the mining and agricultural frontiers, and memoirs from Native Americans. Includes writers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, Charlie Russell, Wallace Stegner, Dorothy Johnson, A.B. Guthrie, Jr. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)