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This house of sky landscapes of a Western mind

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Main Author: Doig, Ivan
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, c1978.
Edition:1st ed.
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Doig, Ivan.
Doig family.
Meagher Co., Mont. > Biography.
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Physical Description:314 p. ; 25 cm.
ISBN:015190054X :
Author Notes:Ivan Doig was born in White Sulphur Springs, Montana in 1939. He received bachelor's and master's degrees in journalism from Northwestern University and a Ph.D. in history from University of Washington. Before becoming an author, he worked as a ranch hand and a journalist.

His non-fiction works include This House of Sky, Winter Brothers, and Heart Earth. His fiction titles include English Creek, Dancing at the Rascal Fair, Bucking the Sun, The Whistling Season, The Bartender's Tale, and Last Bus to Wisdom. He received several awards including the Western Literature Association's Lifetime Distinguished Achievement Award and the Wallace Stegner Award in 2007. He died of multiple myeloma on April 8, 2015 at the age of 75.

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