ARTICLES BY KEITH DAHLBERG
BOOK REVIEW: STEAMBOATS IN THE TIMBER by Ruby El Hult
When the West was being settled in the 1800’s, there were very few easy routes across the northern United States. The Rocky Mountains were a difficult barrier. The Oregon Trail’s “South Pass” went through southern Idaho; a “North Pass” allowed a railroad access up by the Canadian border. In 1862, …
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BOOK REVIEW: AMERICAN COPPER by Shann Ray (fiction, 2015)
This is a story set in the Montana copper mining country around Butte. It has little to do with the mining industry but focuses on several people involved in it.
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BOOK REVIEW: YEAGER An Autobiography by General Chuck Yeager
The main scene is southern California, Muroc air strip, later known as Edwards Air Force Base, where an observer might see an airplane climb 50,000 feet straight up– that’s ten vertical miles above the desert sands. The main character – born as a West Virginia hillbilly in 1923, and lacking …
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Book Review: THE UNDYING SOUL by Stephen J. Iacoboni MD
Dr. Iacoboni is a consulting oncologist – cancer specialist – for several hospitals in northern Idaho and Washington. Even though cancer is treated medically, surgically, and with radiology, the end result is not always a cure. One of an oncologist’s greatest challenges is to build a trusting relationship that can …
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Book Review: TIMEWORN TRAVELS by Tyler Benak
Psychiatrist Dr. Charles Barker has just moved his practice from New York City to a small town not far north of Albany. Most of his books are still unpacked beneath waiting shelves. A new patient, Lewis Fuller, is waiting quietly in the outer room as the doctor arrives. Charles invites …
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Book review: INVISIBLE by Stephen L. Carter
The first few pages of this book read like a two-bit novel of the 1930’s, but it’s a true story of the eventual arrest and conviction of “Lucky Luciano,” the crime boss of all New York City at that time– “the untouchable”.
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Book Review: THE LINE BECOMES A RIVER by Francisco Cantú
Francisco Cantú grew up in west Texas, where his mother worked as a park ranger in the Guadalupe Mountains National Park. He is a US citizen, fluent in both Spanish and English.
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Book Review: WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING by Delia Owens
Barkley Cove is a small town on North Carolina’s marshy forested coast. It’s the county seat; not much else around it – a scattering of families in shacks out in the marsh, living off what the sea and marsh offer.
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Book Review: LORD HORNBLOWER, by C. S. Forester
In a series of books, author Forester chronicles the naval career of Horatio Hornblower from young midshipman through captain in England’s navy during the long war with Napoleon Bonaparte’s France. As this book opens, Captain Hornblower, who beat back Bonaparte’s attempted capture of the seaport of Riga the previous year, …
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Book Review: JUST MERCY, by Bryan Stevenson
This book is worth reading by nearly everyone. My adult son sent me two copies telling me to give one to the town’s library (and I did.)
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BOOK REVIEW: A CHIP OFF THE OLD BLOCK by Ramona Hollenbeck
Ms Hollenbeck centers her story on her father, Raymond Campbell, who spent much of his life in Pinehurst, Idaho, She connects him with a large number of his relatives who came before and after his generation. At various stages of his life, he was a cowboy, miner, farmer, and lumberjack. …
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Book Review: THE DEADLY DEEP by Iain Ballantyne
Subtitled “The Definitive History of Submarine Warfare,” the British author describes not only past events but predicts what future wars may be like.
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Book Review: THE FIRST EAGLE by Tony Hillerman
The Navajo Tribal Police patrol a 27,000 square mile area, mostly in Arizona’s high desert between Flagstaff and Teec Nos Pos. Author Tony Hillerman’s dozen-or-more novels have won many awards from both the Navajo Nation and American literary groups, for portrayal of Navajo and Hopi Indian customs and culture against …
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Book Review: THE DOOR INTO SUMMER by Robert A. Heinlein
Heinlein is one of the leading authors of early science fiction, expertly blending the future with human nature. In this case, the future he imagined in the 1950s is already part of our past – the year 2000.
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