See has constructed this epic story of her Chinese-American family. Includes stories of racism, romance, entrepreneurial genius, domestic heartache, secret marriages and sibling rivalries, in a history of two cultures eeting in a new world.
Last Refuge examines the evolution of the “new west” and the fate of the West and Yellowstone Park, from those who use the land to make a living to environmentalists fighting to protect it. Robbins documents the gradual changes from ranching, mining and logging use of resources to the current push for more environmental protection.
Coyote Springs, an all-Indian rock-and-roll band, traces its journey from a Spokane reservation to New York. A humorous exploration of serious subjects: the effect of Christianity on Native Americans, cultural assimilation and its impact on relations between Indian men and Indian women.
Amid the chaos of the 1970’s, retired professor Lyman Ward retreats to his ancestral home in California. His plan is to write the biography of his grandmother, an elegant and headstrong artist and pioneer who, together with her engineer husband, made her own journey through the hardscrabble West nearly a hundred years before.
The West has a history grounded primarily in economic reality; in hardheaded questions of profit, loss, competition, and consolidation. Limerick presents stories and characters in a new way; the men of the west "meant business" in more ways than one.
