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Doig was born in White Sulphur Springs, Montana [5] to Charles "Charlie" Doig, ranch hand and Berneta Ringer Doig. [5] After the death of his mother on his sixth birthday, he was raised briefly (1947 - 1949) by his father and his father's second wife, Fern White, who had been hired as a ranch cook, and later by his father and his maternal grandmother, Elizabeth "Bessie" Ringer.
This House of Sky: Landscapes of a Western Mind is a 1978 nonfiction book by Ivan Doig. A memoir of the author's early life in Montana , [ 1 ] it was a finalist for the National Book Award . [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It was Doig's first book, written in Seattle and followed by several fiction and nonfiction books. [ 4 ]
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Bucking the Sun is a novel by American author Ivan Doig, published in 1996. It is the fourth book in Doig's Two Medicine Country series. [ 1 ] The title refers to "working against the glare of sunrise or sunset".
The Fort Peck Dam is also featured in Ivan Doig’s novel, The Bartender’s Tale. Fifty Cents an Hour: The Builders and Boomtowns of the Fort Peck Dam, by Montana author Lois Lonnquist, published in 2006, is an overall history of the Fort Peck dam and spillway construction. Built by the Army Corps of Engineers, PWA Project #30 provided ...
Short story writer; novelist; journalist [75] Ivan Doig: 1939–2015 Born in White Sulphur Springs; raised there and in Pondera County; lived near Choteau: Novelist specializing in Montana and western themes [76] Barbara Ehrenreich: 1941–present Born and raised in Butte: Columnist; essayist; political activist; feminist [77] A. B. Guthrie Jr ...
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Ivan Doig: The Whistling Season: Michael D'Orso: Eagle Blue: A Team, A Tribe, and A High School Basketball Season in Arctic Alaska: Sara Gruen: Water for Elephants: Pamela Carter Joern: Floor of the Sky: John Hamamura: Color of the Sea: Michael Lewis: The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game: David Mitchell: Black Swan Green: Ron Rash: The World ...