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States/Territories

Alaska

Anderson, James and Rearden, Jim. Arctic Bush Pilot: From Navy Combat to Flying Alaska's Northern Wilderness: A Memoir . Epicenter Press, 2000.

Brice, Jennifer. Unlearning to Fly . Univ. of Nebraska Press, 2007. Growing up in Alaska.

Brooks, James W. North to Wolf Country: My Life Among the Creatures of Alaska . Epicenter, 2004. Adventurer works to protect Alaskan land and wildlife.

Fanning, Kay. Kay Fanning's Alaska Story: Memoir of a Pulitzer Prize-Winning Newspaper Publisher on America's Northern Frontier . Epicenter Press, 2006. By friends of the late editor of The Christian Science Monitor, a former debutante, about her time at the Anchorage Daily News.

Foley, John. Tundra Teacher: A Memoir . Epicenter Press, 2003.

Hayes, Ernestine. Blonde Indian: An Alaska Native Memoir . University of Arizona Press, 2006. Professor recalls her difficult youth spent partly in detention homes, and her early adulthood; interspersed with stories of her mother’s (Lingit) tribal history that have been passed on for generations.

Hensley, William L. Iggiagruk. Fifty Miles from Tomorrow: A Memoir of Alaska and the Real People . Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008.

Maine

Gould, John. Maine’s Golden Road: A Memoir . W.W. Norton & Co., Inc., 1995. On 32 years of summer camping trips in Maine with his daughter’s father-in-law.

Grumbach, Doris. Extra Innings: A Memoir . W.W. Norton & Co., Inc., 1995. By an NPR contributor on life in Maine.

Wolff, Geoffrey. The Edge of Maine . National Geographic, 2005. Part history, part memoir and part reportage about some of Maine's history, the author’s family's frightening night at sea in a heavy fog, and work in a boatyard.

Montana

Aadland, Dan. The Best of All Seasons: Fifty Years as a Montana Hunter . University of Nebraska Press, 2007.

Bell, Margaret. When Montana and I Were Young: A Frontier Childhood . University of Nebraska Press, 2002. Born in 1888, woman’s harsh pioneer life on the prairie.

Blunt, Judy. Breaking Clean . Vintage, 2003. Childhood of tomboy on 1950s and 60s Montana cattle ranch and her struggle with sexism.

New Mexico

Beath, Mary. Hiking Alone: Trails Out, Trails Home . University of New Mexico Press, 2008.

Crawford, Stanley. Mayordomo: Chronicle of an Acequia in Northern New Mexico . University of New Mexico Press, 1988. Author acts as manager for community irrigation ditch.

Fine, Doug. Farewell, My Subaru: One Man's Search for Happiness Living Green Off the Grid . Villard, 2008. Account of author's attempt to turn New Mexico ranch into a green and sustainable environment.

Jaramillo, Cleofas M. Romance of a Little Village Girl . University of New Mexico Press, 2000. Turn-of-the-century Spanish culture revealed through story of woman’s life.

Nichols, John. If Mountains Die: A New Mexico Memoir . W.W. Norton & Co., 2005. An illustrated memoir on life in the New Mexico landscape.

Schmid, Walter. A German POW in New Mexico . University of New Mexico Press, 2005. Captured in Tunisia, author spent three years in U.S. POW camps.

Zamora, Gloria. Sweet Nata: Growing Up in Rural New Mexico . University of New Mexico Press, 2009. Native New Mexican culture in light of the author’s influential family relationships.

Oregon

Josephy, Alvin M. A Walk Toward Oregon: A Memoir . University of Oklahoma Press, 2001. Journalist promotes Native American rights.

Roberts, Betty and Wells, Gail. With Grit and By Grace: Breaking Trails in Politics and Law, A Memoir . Oregon State University Press, 2008. By Oregon’s first female Supreme Court judge.

Texas

Caldwell, Gail. A Strong West Wind . Random House, 2006. A prize-winning Boston Globe book critic on her youth in Texas.

Wisconsin

Biro, Shannon Kring and Kring, Natalie. Sister Salty, Sister Sweet: A Memoir of Sibling Rivalry . Running Press, 2007. On the sisters’ Wisconsin childhood.

Travel

Blondell, Anthony. Far Away Places: Adventures Aboard the Wayward Wind . Hellgate Press, 2008. On the first of three circumnavigations by sea taken by author and his wife.

Urban Problems

MacDonald, Michael Patrick. Easter Rising: A Memoir of Roots and Rebellion . Mariner Books, 2008. How the author escaped the violence, poverty and gang influence of Irish South Boston.

Naison, Mark. The Rat That Got Away: A Bronx Memoir . Fordham University Press, 2009. Young man’s story of growing up in the South Bronx and how family and his community saved his life from drug abuse.