Leland Buck

[Introduction]

I spoke with author Gary Ferguson about his newest book, “Land On Fire.” Ferguson is a prolific non-fiction writer with over 20 published books about nature and the American West, including “Hawks Rest: A Season in the Remote Heart of Yellowstone,” the first nonfiction title to win both the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award and the Mountains and Plains Booksellers Award for Nonfiction. Other works include “Decade of the Wolf: Returning The Wild To Yellowstone,” written with Douglas Smith, which won the 2005 Montana Book Award; “The Great Divide: The Rocky Mountains in the American Mind,” and “The Carry Home,” a very personal memoir which deals with his grief following the death of his wife Jane in a 2005 canoeing accident in Canada. [Read more…]