Posts by jnisbet
The Dreamer and the Doctor
Jack’s latest effort, The Dreamer and the Doctor, will be released on October 23 from Sasquatch Books. It traces the unlikely saga of John and Carrie Leiberg through the Inland Northwest and around the world. “Jack Nisbet continues to educate, entertain, and mesmerize with this meticulously written and researched story of two people-of-destiny whose intelligence and passion transformed our awareness and understanding of the Northwest. Part history, part adventure tale, part love story, part futuristic foreshadowing, this book fascinated me from beginning to end with its eloquence, urgency, and quiet intensity.” – Kim Barnes, Author of In the Wilderness: Coming of...
Read MoreSteptoe Butte Bus Trip
Join Jack Nisbet for a journey back in time to the iconic lookout of Steptoe Butte. We will visit the site of the Coplen Brothers’ 1876 mammoth find, talk about the flora and fauna that lived here during the last Ice Age, and walk the flower-strewn slopes of Steptoe on a spring afternoon. View Event Details
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The Spokane River This spring the University of Washington Press will release a wide-ranging anthology on the Spokane River edited by Paul Lindholdt. It will include an essay by Jack on the Spokane House fur trade post for more information, go to http://www.washington.edu/uwpress/search/books/LINSPO.html The Dreamer and the Doctor Jack’s newest effort, which traces the unlikely saga of John and Carrie Leiberg, will be out this October from Sasquatch Books. John was a prospector and naturalist who published landmark investigations from all over the Intermountain West in the late nineteenth century. Carrie was a practicing physician who kept a much lower profile, but...
Read More“A Taste for Roots” Presentation at Sandpoint Community Hall
Jack will be in Sandpoint to speak about biscuitroots to the Native Plant Society on Saturday morning, January 27. View Event Details
Read MoreC-Span Interview
Here is an interview Jack did about Ancient Places along scenic Hangman Creek in Spokane https://www.c-span.org/video/?432414-2/ancient-places
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