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  1. The Whistling Season

    by Ivan Doig

    "Can’t cook but doesn’t bite." So begins the ad offering the services of an "A-1 housekeeper" that draws the attention of widower Oliver Milliron in the fall of 1909. And so also begins the unforgettable season that deposits the noncooking, nonbiting, ever-whistling Rose Llewellyn and her... (learn more about this book)

  2. The McCaskill Trilogy: Book 2

    Dancing at the Rascal Fair

    by Ivan Doig

    The central volume in Ivan Doig's acclaimed Montana trilogy, Dancing at the Rascal Fair is an authentic saga of the American experience at the turn of this century and a passionate, portrayal of the immigrants who dared to try new lives in the imposing Rocky Mountains. Ivan Doig's supple... (learn more about this book)

  3. This House of Sky

    by Ivan Doig

    This work introduced a major modern author to the reading public. Doig’s life was formed among the sheepherders and other denizens of small-town saloons and valley ranches as he wandered beside his restless father. New Preface by the Author.

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  4. The McCaskill Trilogy: Book 1

    English Creek

    by Ivan Doig

    In this prizewinning portrait of a time and place -- Montana in the 1930s -- that at once inspires and fulfills a longing for an explicable past, Ivan Doig has created one of the most captivating families in American fiction, the McCaskills. The witty and haunting narration, a masterpiece of... (learn more about this book)

  5. The McCaskill Trilogy: Book 3

    Ride with Me, Mariah Montana

    by Ivan Doig

    This greathearted novel is the finale of Ivan Doig's passionate and authentic trilogy about the McCaskill family and their alluring Two Medicine country along the hem of the northern Rockies. Jick McCaskill, the illustrious narrator of English Creek, returns as the witty and moving voice in... (learn more about this book)

  6. The Sea Runners

    by Ivan Doig

    In this timeless survival story, four indentured servants escape their Russian Alaska work camp in a stolen canoe, only to face a harrowing journey down the Pacific Northwest coast. Battling unrelenting high seas and fierce weather from New Archangel, Alaska, to Astoria, Oregon, the men... (learn more about this book)

  7. The Eleventh Man

    by Ivan Doig

    Driven by the memory of a fallen teammate, TSU’s 1941 starting lineup went down as legend in Montana football history, charging through the season undefeated. Two years later, the "Supreme Team" is caught up in World War II. Ten of them are scattered around the globe in the war’s various... (learn more about this book)

  8. Bucking the Sun

    by Ivan Doig

    Bucking the Sun is the story of the Duff family, homesteaders driven from the Montana bottomland to work on one of the New Deal's most audacious projects -- the damming of the Missouri River. Through the story of each family member -- a wrathful father, a mettlesome mother, and three very... (learn more about this book)

  9. Work Song

    by Ivan Doig

    An award-winning and beloved novelist of the American West spins the further adventures of a favorite character, in one of the richest historical settings yet. "If America was a melting pot, Butte would be its boiling point," observes Morrie Morgan, the itinerant teacher, walking... (learn more about this book)

  10. Mountain Time : A Novel

    by Ivan Doig

    At fifty-something, environmental reporter Mitch Rozier has grown estranged from Seattle's coffee shop and cyber culture. His newspaper is going under, and his relationship with Lexa McCaskill is stalled at "just living together." Then, he is summoned by his sly, exasperating father, Lyle,... (learn more about this book)

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