Two Toes: The Coyote Legend of Green River

This is the tale of a wily coyote that was widely pursued by trappers in the sheep country of northeastern Utah in the early 1940s. The story is actually a fictionalized account of real events in which the author, Preston Q. Hale, played a key role. It vividly depicts life in the late 1930s in northeastern Utahs sheep countrythe ridges and benches of the Uintah Basin through which flows the Green River. The book explores the mystique of the often maligned coyote, making no hero of it, but also showing it to be an animal of great intelligence, a stealthy hunter, dedicated to its mate and pups. This is a story that will appeal to readers of all ages. 
The coyote is thoroughly entwined in the history and lore of American West. Today, writes the author, Farmers, ranchersanyone whos worked or slept outdoors outside the cities and towns of the Westhas likely heard the coyotes howl at night. It stirs the imaginationwhich can run wild. 
The book features illustrations and a color cover by Truckee, California artist Pam McAdoo. She worked closely with the author to produce exquisite pencil illustrations which complement the text. Her watercolor rendering of the coyote, Two Toes, is featured on the books dust jacket.

Literature & Fiction

Hale, Preston Q.

Genre Fiction

Black Rock Press

This is the tale of a wily coyote that was widely pursued by trappers in the sheep country of northeastern Utah in the early 1940s. The story is actually a fictionalized account of real events in which the author, Preston Q. Hale, played a key role. It vividly depicts life in the late 1930s in northeastern Utahs sheep countrythe ridges and benches of the Uintah Basin through which flows the Green River. The book explores the mystique of the often maligned coyote, making no hero of it, but also showing it to be an animal of great intelligence, a stealthy hunter, dedicated to its mate and pups. This is a story that will appeal to readers of all ages.   The coyote is thoroughly entwined in the history and lore of American West. Today, writes the author, Farmers, ranchersanyone whos worked or slept outdoors outside the cities and towns of the Westhas likely heard the coyotes howl at night. It stirs the imaginationwhich can run wild.  The book features illustrations and a color cover by Truckee, California artist Pam McAdoo. She worked closely with the author to produce exquisite pencil illustrations which complement the text. Her watercolor rendering of the coyote, Two Toes, is featured on the books dust jacket.

Poetry by a former NBA basketball star and now a teacher. What emerges from this three part collection is a remarkable history. Beginning in revolutionary Russia, these poems chronicle political abuses, social turmoil, and the saga of Mescherys family, struggling through Siberian cold and two world wars, to land in America. Mescherys basketball career in the National Basketball Association takes shape in part two, as the son of Russian immigrants becomes a hard-nosed NBA big man. The poems show the game changing over generations, as Meschery gives voice to greats like West, Chamberlain, Bird, and Jordan, along with those fame left behind, like Maurice Stokes, paralyzed by an on-court accident. Finally, we follow Meschery into the high school classroom, where a new generation struggles through victories and defeats. In all their arenas, Mescherys poems celebrate rare moments of human excellence, witness all-too-frequent shortcomings, and maintain a textured focus on the detail of individual lives set in larger social and politica! l contexts.

Nothing We Lose Can Be Replaced

Meschery, Tom

Poetry

Award winning poetry book. In 2002 this book won the Western Heritage award as the best poetry book for 2001; the Spur Award from the Western Writers of America as the best poetry book of the year; the WILLA Award from the Women Writing the West organization as their best poetry book of the year.

Blood Sister, I Am to These Fields: New and Selected Poems

Hussa, Linda

Education For Nevada: 117 Years of Teacher Education at the College of Education University of Nevada, Reno 1887-2004

Holly Walton Buchanan & Gary Peltier

Illustrated softcover edition. "In the following pages, you will meet some of the members of [a] special group. It is a glimpse of how these...people from the early 1960, born of parents who experienced the Great Depression and WWII, have coped with the challenges in their lives during the last third of the 20th century. This story emerging from the life work of the members of the Fletcher School Class of 1965 is one of dedicated service to others and significant involvement in international affairs

In the Shadow of Camelot (Reflections of the members of the class of 1965; The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy Tufts University)

Larry Struve

This guide highlights the architectural and historical significance of more than sixty important homes, ranch houses, and buildings in Reno, Nevada. Known as The Biggest Little City in the World since the 1930s, when quickie divorces and casino gaming were legalized by the Nevada Legislature, Reno has reinvented itself several times during its nearly 150 years of history. Founded in the 1860s on the banks of the scenic Truckee River in Northern Nevada, Reno has had a fascinating journey, from its beginnings as an Emigrant Trail outpost, to its role in the mid-1930s invention of the hotel and casino industry. Cattle barons, mine speculators, and bank presidents in 19th century Reno built their mansions on the high bluff above the Truckee River, surrounded by extensive gardens, transforming the arid little town into what author Walter Van Tilburg Clark called The City of Trembling Leaves. Also featured is the beautiful University of Nevada, Reno, campus, with its Neoclassical buildings designed by Reno s most prominent architect, Frederic Delongchamps. Enhanced with both historical and contemporary photographs, the book includes maps, a glossary of architectural terms with local examples, and a list of architectural styles found in Reno.

Historic Houses and Buildings of Reno, Nevada: An Architectural and Historical Guide

Arts & Photography

Walton-Buchanan, Holly

Photography & Video

Poetry by David Lee, former Poet Laureate of Utah.

Stone Wind Water: Poems

Lee, David

Artifact Eleven

William Stobb

The Golden Pilgrimage: 99 Sonnets

Nightingale, Steven

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Two Toes: The Coyote Legend of Green River

Two Toes: The Coyote Legend of Green River

Nothing We Lose Can Be Replaced

Blood Sister, I Am to These Fields: New and Selected Poems

Education For Nevada: 117 Years of Teacher Education at the College of Education University of Nevada, Reno 1887-2004

In the Shadow of Camelot (Reflections of the members of the class of 1965; The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy Tufts University)

Historic Houses and Buildings of Reno, Nevada: An Architectural and Historical Guide

Stone Wind Water: Poems

Artifact Eleven

The Golden Pilgrimage: 99 Sonnets