High Country News corralled a posse of Western historians, novelists, and essayists, including former Texan and Palo Duro homilist Dan Flores, and asked them what they’d recommend the next president read.
Their broad-ranging list includes Marc Reisner’s “Cadillac Desert,” Charles Mann's “1491,” Jared Diamond's “Collapse,” Doug Peacock’s “Grizzly Years,” Ed Abbey’s “Desert Solitude” and David Stuart's “Anasazi America,” among others.
Recommended books that might be less familiar include “Blood Struggle: The Rise of Modern Indian Nations,” by Charles Wilkinson, which is THE go-to book for American Indians battling Washington on tribal sovereignty issues.
Leslie Marmon Silko, Cormac McCarthy, Wallace Stegner, Rudolfo Anaya and Ivan Doig lead the recommendations on the fiction side.
Read the whole list; you just might find yourself some new reading.
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