He lived in Seattle until his death in April 2015 aged 75 from multiple myeloma. As the western landscape and people play an important role in his fiction, he was been hailed as the new dean of western literature, a worthy successor to Wallace Stegner. The first three Montana novels English Creek, Dancing at the Rascal Fair, and Ride with Me, Mariah Montanaform the so-called 'McCaskill trilogy,' covering the first centennial of Montana's statehood from 1889 to 1989. His major theme is family life in the past, mixing personal memory and regional history. He was a National Book Award finalist and received the Wallace Stegner Award and a Distinguished Achievement Award from the Western Literature Association, among numerous other honors. A former ranch hand, newspaperman, and magazine editor, Doig was the author of 13 novels, most recently The Bartender's Tale, Sweet Thunder and Last Bus to Wisdom (Aug 2015), and four works of nonfiction, including his classic first book, the memoir This House of Sky. 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.Ivan Doig was born in Montana and grew up along the Rocky Mountain Front, the dramatic landscape that inspired much of his writing. Doig created one of the most captivating families in American fiction in these prizewinning portraits of time and place-Montana at three pivotal points in the twentieth century. Jick faces his family’s-and his state’s-legacy of loss and perseverance from the vantage point of Montana’s centennial in 1989. 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. The central volume in Doig’s 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. Synopsis: The central volume in Ivan Doigs acclaimed Montana trilogy, Dancing at the Rascal Fair is an authentic saga of the American experience at the. Through Jick’s eyes we see his friends and family at turning points and discover Jick’s own connection to the land, to history, and to the deep-fathomed mysteries of one’s kin and one’s self. Doig first recounts the events of a Two Medicine country summer in English Creek, as fourteen-year-old Jick McCaskill comes of age. “Here is the real Montana, the real West, through the eyes of a real writer.” -Wallace Stegner Covering the first century of Montana’s statehood from 1889 to 1989, Ivan Doig’s Montana Trilogy follows the McCaskill family and their alluring Two Medicine country along the hem of the northern Rockies. From the celebrated and uniquely American author Ivan Doig-an unforgettable portrait of the western United States-his stunning Montana Trilogy: English Creek Dancing at the Rascal Fair and Ride With Me, Mariah Montana, now available in a boxed set.

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