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Podcast Interview – The Dreamer and the Doctor
October 23, 2018 Spokane author Jack Nisbet and his new book, “The Dreamer and the Doctor”
Interview with Jack about The Dreamer and the Doctor from the Spokesman-Review
Read an interview with Jack about The Dreamer and the Doctor from the Spokesman-Review
http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2018/oct/27/spokane-author-jack-nisbet-turns-his-focus-to-john/
Columbia Conversations interview with Felix Banel of the Washington State Historical Society
The Washington State Historical Society has awarded the Gray Medal, its highest honor, to Jack Nisbet.
The presentation will take place at the society’s annual luncheon on September 22nd.
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David Douglas’s Nine Lives
On May 24 at 7 pm at the Fort Vancouver Visitor Center, author Jack Nisbet will provide a free public presentation titled “David Douglas’s Nine Lives” on how Douglas managed to stay alive while he was in the Northwest, what his collections mean to us today, and what really might have happened at the scene of his death.
View Event DetailsSteptoe 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.
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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 made a habit of appearing at the nexus of social and public health issues of her time. Full of surprising twists and turns, the Leiberg story resonates forward with a decidedly human glow.
“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.
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Here is an interview Jack did about Ancient Places along scenic Hangman Creek in Spokane