The Montana Trilogy Boxed Set: English Creek Dancing at the Rascal Fair and Ride With Me Mariah Montana

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From the celebrated and uniquely American author Ivan Doigan unforgettable portrait of the western United Stateshis stunning Montana Trilogy: English Creek; Dancing at the Rascal Fair; and Ride With Me Mariah Montana now available in a boxed set. Here is the real Montana the real West through the eyes of a real writer. Wallace Stegner Covering the first century of Montanas statehood from 1889 to 1989 Ivan Doigs Montana Trilogy follows the McCaskill family and their alluring Two Medicine country along the hem of the northern Rockies. Doig first recounts the events of a Two Medicine country summer in English Creek as fourteen-year-old Jick McCaskill comes of age. Through Jicks eyes we see his friends and family at turning points and discover Jicks own connection to the land to history and to the deep-fathomed mysteries of ones kin and ones self. The central volume in Doigs acclaimed trilogy Dancing at the Rascal Fair explores the American experience at the turn of the century a passionate portrayal of the immigrants who dared to try new lives in the imposing Rocky Mountains. Finally Jick McCaskill returns in Ride With Me Mariah Montana as the clever and moving voice in this classic encounter with the American road and all the rewards and travails it can bring. Jick faces his familysand his stateslegacy of loss and perseverance from the vantage point of Montanas centennial in 1989. Doig created one of the most captivating families in American fiction in these prizewinning portraits of time and placeMontana at three pivotal points in the twentieth century. Ivan Doig is a presiding figure in the literature of the American West (The New York Times Book Review) and will be canonized as such.