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The Dreamer and the Doctor: A Forest Lover and a Physician on the Edge of the Frontier
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In the turn-of-the-twentieth-century Northwest, the lives and passions of an American physician and her Swedish naturalist husband helped shape a territory on the cusp of changefrom the author of Sources of the River and The Collector.
Dr. Carrie Leiberg, a pioneer physician, fought hard for public health while nurturing both a troubled son and a fruit orchard. Her husband, John Leiberg, was a Swedish immigrant and self-taught naturalist who transformed himself from pickax Idaho prospector to special field agent for the US Forest Commission and warned Washington DC of ecological devastation of public lands. The Leiberg story opens a window into the human and natural landscape of a century past that reflects all the thorny issues of our present time.
Dr. Carrie Leiberg, a pioneer physician, fought hard for public health while nurturing both a troubled son and a fruit orchard. Her husband, John Leiberg, was a Swedish immigrant and self-taught naturalist who transformed himself from pickax Idaho prospector to special field agent for the US Forest Commission and warned Washington DC of ecological devastation of public lands. The Leiberg story opens a window into the human and natural landscape of a century past that reflects all the thorny issues of our present time.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781632173423 |
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Publisher: | Sasquatch Books |
Publication date: | 03/18/2020 |
Pages: | 320 |
Sales rank: | 624,232 |
Product dimensions: | 5.30(w) x 8.20(h) x 0.80(d) |
About the Author
JACK NISBET is a historian, teacher, and author focusing on the intersection of human history and natural history in the Pacific Northwest. His books include Sources of the River (recipient of the Washington Governor's Award and winner of the Murray Morgan Prize from the Washington State Historical Society), The Mapmaker's Eye (named one of The Best Nonfiction Books of the Year by The Seattle Times), The Collector (a Pacific Northwest Book Award winner) and Visible Bones. He lives in Spokane, Washington.
Table of Contents
Author's Note ix
Introduction xi
Chapter 1 First Ride 1
Chapter 2 The Lake 15
Chapter 3 Family Practice 35
Chapter 4 Crossing the Columbia Plateau 57
Chapter 5 Tracks 81
Chapter 6 High Lava Plains 93
Chapter 7 The Coeur d'Alenes 111
Chapter 8 Basin and Range 133
Chapter 9 Solitaire 151
Chapter 10 From the Priest to the Bitterroot 167
Chapter 11 Further 187
Chapter 12 Silver Against Gold 203
Chapter 13 The World Awaits 217
Chapter 14 The Doctor Calls 237
Acknowledgments 255
Chapter Notes 257
Selected Bibliography 276
Index 287
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