Books by Ron Strickland
Dr. Strickland is fascinated with America's regions. As early as 1964 he sought the first person, local perspective at Vermont's School For International Training where he deployed teams of foreign students to survey farmers about rural school consolidation. Years passed and he forgot about those barnyard interviews as he worked to locate, develop, and protect the Pacific Northwest Trail (PNT). During the 1970's he was totally focused on raising funds, recruiting volunteers, cutting brush, digging dirt, and lobbying landowners, officials, and politicians. However, out in the backcountry he accidentally turned up many priceless narratives. And when it became clear that people's vanishing lifestyles needed a chronicler, he collected some of those stories in River Pigs And Cayuses (1984.) The creation of that first book inspired him to record the process of change in other regions. So far he has published and illustrated 5 such volumes and begun others about the South, Midwest, and Far West.
THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST TRAIL GUIDE
Signed copies are available from the author via ronstrickland dot com.
Here is the official guide to the spectacular new 1,200-mile foot and horse path from Montana's Glacier National Park to Washington's Olympic National Park. This comprehensive guide features route descriptions, topographic maps, mileage charts, and information on planning, navigating, and re-supplying a trip. Whether you are a dayhiker or a thru-hiker, this 2001 edition is still the best source for information about America's most alluring new trail.
VERMONTERS: ORAL HISTORIES FROM DOWN COUNTRY TO THE NORTHEAST KINGDOM
"Strickland is a skillful writer whose introductory paragraphs lead the reader smoothly from one character to the next. Here are the logger and the auctioneer, the rural schoolteacher, the country doctor, the quilter, the beekeeper, the dairyman... and many others... These glimpses whet the appetite, tantalize the curiosity, for more." - Vermont Historical Society, Winter 1988
RIVER PIGS AND CAYUSES: ORAL HISTORIES FROM THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST
"A superbly readable index of the human presence in the Northwest" - Western American Literature,Vol. XXI, No. 1. (It is illustrated by the author.) www.uapress.arizona.edu
WHISTLEPUNKS & GEODUCKS: ORAL HISTORIES FROM THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST
"Author Ron Strickland has done a remarkable job of gathering and editing these reminiscences, drawing forth the most telling information from each narrator... His quiet introductions weave the narratives together in a powerful harmony of memory, reflection, and wisdom" - The Seattle Times, November 18, 1990. www.uapress.arizona.edu
TEXANS: ORAL HISTORIES FROM THE LONE STAR STATE
Buy a custom-signed copy of out-of-print TEXANS from the author for $50 postpaid.
"Strickland shows his strength through the diversity of the subjects he features...a colorful tapestry" - The Houston Post, October 27, 1991
"All of these folks, whether you like them or not, are a cut outside the ordinary. And when you listen to these people talk to Ron Strickland about their lives and you get to know them, you are reminded again of the vitality that is all around us all the time and sometimes even in the dullest of ourselves." Francis Edward Abernathy, Dallas Morning News, December 1, 1991.
ALASKANS: ORAL HISTORIES FROM THE LAST FRONTIER
Buy a custom-signed copy of out-of-print ALASKANS from the author for $50 postpaid.
"The main strength of Strickland's book is that after the author's introductions, the portraits come from the individuals themselves. Strickland's lead-ins give readers, especially non-Alaskans, a context for understanding the speaker." - Diane Raab, Juneau Empire, November 12, 1992
SHANK'S MARE: A COMPENDIUM OF REMARKABLE WALKS
A literary anthology of twentieth century walking including everyone from Winston Churchill to the lunar astronauts. "A fine collection of modern walking adventures." - Conde Nast Traveler, August 1992
COMING SOON!
