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Publications We find our place in the world through land and stories, and the Rocky Mountain Land Library unites our passion for both. -- Mark Fiege, historian and author of Irrigated Eden: The Making of an Agricultural Landscape in the American West The Rocky Mountain Land Library is more than just a good idea. These days, we need prophets like Elijah to animate the bones and make them dance to the tune of good writing and sound science. The Land Library does just that. --Tom Wolf, author of Colorado's Sangre de Cristo Mountains. The Rocky Mountain Land Library has joined with Johnson Books to publish a new series of books on land and community in the American West. Here are our first three books. Watch for more! To order copies, please contact your local independent bookseller, or visit www.tatteredcover.com 
The Landscape of Home: A Rocky Mountain Land Series Readeredited by Jeff Lee, John Calderazzo, SueEllen Campbell, and David Waag ($17.00 paperback, ISBN 1-55566-393-1) In October 2001, Denver's legendary Tattered Cover Book Store, in partnership with the Rocky Mountain Land Library, established a special new author forum - the Rocky Mountain Land Series. Over two hundred Land Series programs later, The Landscape of Home celebrates the 5th Anniversary of this award-winning series. Included in this thoughtful collection is an intriguing mix of past Land Series writers - Craig Childs, Ann Zwinger, Gary Ferguson, Stewart Udall, and Douglas Chadwick, along with several strong new voices of the West, such as Gillian Klucas, Andrea Peacock, and Jeffrey Lockwood. In this well-chosen collection, the Rocky Mountain Land Library does what it does best. It showcases some of our region's finest literary voices, and continues a lively, crucial conversation about the places we call home. - Michelle Nijhuis, contributing editor, High Country News A stellar collection! The authors here remind us that when you stop and give nature close, mindful attention, it offers, in return, an amazing array of beauty, intrigue, glory, and example. This collection's tremendous gift is the authors' dynamic and varied angles of looking at, and participating in, our landscape - and thereby reminding us how many ways there are to see, exist in, and love our West. - Laura Pritchett, author of Hell's Bottom, Colorado and Sky Bridge 
Pulse of the River: Colorado Writers Speak for the Endangered Cache la Poudre edited by Gary Wockner and Laura Pritchett ($17.00 paperback, ISBN 1-55566-393-3) In Pulse of the River, thirty Colorado writers and poets speak out for the Cache la Poudre, a fabled but endangered river of the Rockies. Contributors include James Galvin, John Calderazzo, Bill Tremblay, and Clarrisa Pinkola Estes. All royalties will be donated to the Colorado Water Trust. One of the things that impresses me about this collective group of Poudre activists is the unabashed acknowledgment of the spiritual value of the Cache la Poudre River provides to the lives of the respondents - this river has healed and restored their sometimes-injured lives. There is nothing abstract of hypothetical about these testimonies: this is real-time restoration. Of course it makes sense, from a perspective of moral reciprocity, for those healed and restored by the river's presence to be compelled now to return the favor; and hence this book, this testimony, this commitment to a vision. -from the foreword by Rick Bass
And coming in January 2007: Home Land: Ranching and a West that works edited by Laura Pritchett, Rick Knight, and Jeff Lee Western writers take an up-close look at ranching in the West, healing the urban/rural divide, and creating ways of working from the radical center. Contributors include Rick Bass, Linda Hussa, Courtney White, Page Lambert, and Drum Hadley. All royalties will be donated to the Colorado Cattleman's Agricultural Land Trust. There are still plenty of folks at war in the American West, but in their midst a new breed of warriors has arisen, people who are fighting to create what many call the radical center, a place where people can find common ground for the truly radical activity of healing both land and community, of creating a West that works. -from the introduction by Teresa Jordan |
