Posts by jnisbet
2025 Updates
Jack continues to lead walks for various organizations around the Spokane area. Since many of these excursions have a short lead time, the best way to find out about them is to get on our mailing list by sending an email request on the Contact Page. Jack has also completed a pair of visual essays for HistoryLink.org that explore tribal use of fire on the landscape around the period of contact—one for east of the Cascades, one for the west side. You can view them at https://historylink.org/File/23302 https://historylink.org/File/23301 Upcoming dates to note: Fort Colvile Summit October 18, 2025: 10AM-3PM Mistequa Hotel and Casino Register and learn more here Jack...
Read MoreWe Proceeded On
Jack‘s article “Many Forks: Towards a Geography of the Snake River Drainage” is in the May 2019 issue of “We Proceeded On.” It will be posted on the magazine’s web site soon. For links to Jack‘s previous articles in WPO, go to the FREELANCE section
Read MoreOregon Historical Quarterly’s review of The Dreamer and the Doctor
To read the Oregon Historical Quarterly’s review of The Dreamer and the Doctor, click HERE.
Read MoreGreen Arcade Books
Jack will be appearing at San Francisco’s iconic Green Arcade Books on June 28, 2019. See the CALENDAR for details
Read MoreBoundaries Column
Jack has stepped back from his monthly Boundaries column for North Columbia Monthly. He offers many thanks to Steve and Karla Rumsey and Gabriel Cruden for allowing him to write it for so long. Attached is a complete list of his Boundary columns for 2002-2019 plus an index of the articles and illustrations as they appeared in time. Boundaries articles all 2019 Boundaries Index 2019
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