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Doig, Ivan was born on June 27, 1939 in White Sulphur Springs, Montana, United States. Son of Charles Campbell and Berneta (Ringer) Doig.
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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 struggle to avoid hostile Tlingit Indians, to fend off starvation and exhaustion, and to endure their own doubt and distrust. Based on an actual incident in 1853, The Sea Runners is a spare and awe-inspiring tale of the human quest for freedom.
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( Ivan Doig grew up with only a vague memory of his mothe...)
Ivan Doig grew up with only a vague memory of his mother, Berneta, who died on his sixth birthday. Then he discovered a cache of her letters--and through them, a spunky, passionate, can-do woman as at home in the saddle as behind a sewing machine, and as in love with language as Doig would prove to be. In this moving prequel to his acclaimed memoir This House of Sky, Doig brings to life his childhood before his mother's death and the family's journey from the Montana mountains to the Arizona desert and back again. He eloquently captures the texture of the American West during and after World War II, the fortune of a family, and one woman's indomitable spirit.
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Ivan Doig has been hailed by the New York Times as "dean of Western American letters." In Ride with Me, Mariah Montana, widower Jick McCaskill, his daughter Mariah, and Mariah's ex-husband Riley take a road trip back and forth across Montana. As Jick recounts his memories of the area, Riley and Mariah fall in and out of love-and Jick unexpectedly discovers a new partner.
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(From the celebrated and uniquely American author Ivan Doi...)
From the celebrated and uniquely American author Ivan Doig—an unforgettable portrait of the western United States—his stunning Montana Trilogy: English Creek; Dancing at the Rascal Fair; and Ride With Me, Mariah Montana, now available in a boxed set. “Here is the real Montana, the real West, through the eyes of a real writer.” —Wallace Stegner Covering the first century of Montana’s statehood from 1889 to 1989, Ivan Doig’s Montana Trilogy follows the McCaskill family and their alluring Two Medicine country along the hem of the northern Rockies. Doig first recounts the events of a Two Medicine country summer in English Creek, as fourteen-year-old Jick McCaskill comes of age. Through Jick’s eyes we see his friends and family at turning points and discover Jick’s own connection to the land, to history, and to the deep-fathomed mysteries of one’s kin and one’s self. The central volume in Doig’s acclaimed trilogy, Dancing at the Rascal Fair, explores the American experience at the turn of the century, a passionate portrayal of the immigrants who dared to try new lives in the imposing Rocky Mountains. Finally, Jick McCaskill returns in Ride With Me, Mariah Montana as the clever and moving voice in this classic encounter with the American road and all the rewards and travails it can bring. Jick faces his family’s—and his state’s—legacy of loss and perseverance from the vantage point of Montana’s centennial in 1989. Doig created one of the most captivating families in American fiction in these prizewinning portraits of time and place—Montana at three pivotal points in the twentieth century. Ivan Doig is “a presiding figure in the literature of the American West” (The New York Times Book Review) and will be canonized as such.
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(This greathearted novel is the finale of Ivan Doig's pass...)
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 this classic encounter with the American road and all the rewards and travails it can bring. Jick faces his family's -- and his state's -- legacy of loss and perseverance from the vantage point of Montana's centennial in 1989 when his daughter Mariah enlists him as Winnebago chauffeur to her and her ex-husband, the magnificently ornery and eloquent columnist Riley Wright, when their news-paper dispatches them to dig up stories of the "real Montana." Just as the centennial is a cause for reflection as well as jubilation, the exuberant travels of this trio bring on encounters with the past in "memory storms" that become occasions for reassessment and necessary accommodations of the heart.
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(The central volume in Ivan Doig's acclaimed Montana trilo...)
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 tale of landseekers unfolds into a fateful contest of the heart between Anna Ramsay and Angus McCaskill, walled apart by their obligations as they and their stormy kith and kin vie to tame the brutal, beautiful Two Medicine country.
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This is a collection of three novels: 'Wolf Willow' by Wallace Stegner, 'Will's Boy' by Wright Morris and 'This House of Sky' by Ivan Doig. The introduction is by T.H. Watkins.
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(Ivan Doig grew up in the rugged Montana wilderness with h...)
Ivan Doig grew up in the rugged Montana wilderness with his father, Charlie, and his grandmother, Bessie Ringer. He lived among sheepherders and the characters in small-town saloons and valley ranches as he tagged along with his restless father. Doig puts us in touch with the land and its influence on us, also with ties to our family and those who shaped our values in the search for intimacy, independence and love. "From this beautifully written, deeply felt book we recognize that other step toward the universal. The language begins in western territory and experience but in the hands of an artist it touches all landscapes and all life. Doig is such an artist." (Los Angeles Times)
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(In this prizewinning portrait of a time and place -- Mont...)
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 vernacular in the tradition of Twain, follows the events of the Two Medicine country's summer: the tide of sheep moving into the high country, the capering Fourth of July rodeo and community dance, and an end-of-August forest fire high in the Rockies that brings the book, as well as the McCaskill family's struggle within itself, to a stunning climax. It is a season of escapade as well as drama, during which fourteen-year-old Jick comes of age. Through his eyes we see those nearest and dearest to him at a turning point -- "where all four of our lives made their bend" -- and discover along with him his own connection to the land, to history, and to the deep-fathomed mysteries of one's kin and one's self.
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( Novelist Ivan Doig revisits the American west in the ea...)
Novelist Ivan Doig revisits the American west in the early twentieth century, bringing to life the eccentric individuals and idiosyncratic institutions that made it thrive. “Can't cook but doesn't bite." So begins the newspaper ad offering the services of an "A-1 housekeeper, sound morals, exceptional disposition" that draws the attention of widower Oliver Milliron in the fall of 1909. That unforgettable season deposits the ever-whistling Rose Llewellyn and her font-of-knowledge brother, Morris Morgan, in Marias Coulee along with a stampede of homesteaders drawn by the promise of the Big Ditch—a gargantuan irrigation project intended to make the Montana prairie bloom. When the schoolmarm runs off with an itinerant preacher, Morris is pressed into service, setting the stage for the "several kinds of education"—none of them of the textbook variety—Morris and Rose will bring to Oliver, his three sons, and the rambunctious students in the region's one-room schoolhouse. A paean to a way of life that has long since vanished, The Whistling Season is Ivan Doig at his evocative best.
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(A memoir of the author's growing up in Montana explores t...)
A memoir of the author's growing up in Montana explores the influences family, the land, and hometown ties have on individual direction and values. 2 cassettes.
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( A haunting, magnificently written memoir by Ivan Doig a...)
A haunting, magnificently written memoir by Ivan Doig about growing up in the American West Ivan Doig grew up in the rugged wilderness of western Montana among the sheepherders and denizens of small-town saloons and valley ranches. What he deciphers from his past with piercing clarity is not only a raw sense of land and how it shapes us but also of the ties to our mothers and fathers, to those who love us, and our inextricable connection to those who shaped our values in our search for intimacy, independence, love, and family. A powerfully told story, This House of Sky is at once especially American and universal in its ability to awaken a longing for an explicable past.
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( The author of This House of Sky provides a magnificent ...)
The author of This House of Sky provides a magnificent evocation of the Pacific Northwest through the diaries of James Gilchrist Swan, a settler of the region. Doig fuses parts of the Swan diaries with his own journal.
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Doig, Ivan was born on June 27, 1939 in White Sulphur Springs, Montana, United States. Son of Charles Campbell and Berneta (Ringer) Doig.
BJ, Northwestern University, 1961. Master of Science in Journalism, Northwestern University, 1962. Doctor of Philosophy in History, University Washington, 1969.
Doctor of Letters (honorary), Montana State University, 1984. Doctor of Letters (honorary), Lewis and Clark College, 1987.
Editorial writer, Lindsay-Schaub Newspapers, Decatur, Illinois, 1963-1964; assistant editor, The Rotarian, Evanston, Illinois, 1964-1966.
(Ivan Doig’s companion memoir to his bestselling This Hous...)
(The central volume in Ivan Doig's acclaimed Montana trilo...)
(From the celebrated and uniquely American author Ivan Doi...)
(In this prizewinning portrait of a time and place -- Mont...)
( A haunting, magnificently written memoir by Ivan Doig a...)
(This greathearted novel is the finale of Ivan Doig's pass...)
( In this timeless survival story, four indentured servan...)
( Novelist Ivan Doig revisits the American west in the ea...)
( The author of This House of Sky provides a magnificent ...)
(A memoir of the author's growing up in Montana explores t...)
(This is a collection of three novels: 'Wolf Willow' by Wa...)
(Ivan Doig grew up in the rugged Montana wilderness with h...)
( Ivan Doig grew up with only a vague memory of his mothe...)
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Sergeant United States Air Force Reserve, 1962-1969. Member Authors Guild, Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association American Center M C.
Married Carol Dean Muller, April 17, 1965.