{"product_id":"letters-from-yellowstone-9780140291810","title":"Letters from Yellowstone","description":"\u003cb\u003eFor readers of Larry McMurtry's \u003ci\u003eLonesome Dove\u003c\/i\u003e, Elizabeth Gilbert\u003cb\u003e'\u003c\/b\u003es\u003ci\u003e The Signature of All Things\u003c\/i\u003e, and Hope Jahren's \u003ci\u003eLab Girl\u003c\/i\u003e, Diane Smith's warmhearted and award-winning epistolary novel about a spunky young woman who joins a makeshift field study in Yellowstone National Park at the end of the nineteenth century\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003e\"I loved this book in a way that I haven't loved a book in some time.\" --James Welch, author of \u003ci\u003eFools Crow\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In the spring of 1898, A. E. (Alexandria) Bartram--a spirited young woman with a love for botany--is invited to join a field study in Yellowstone National Park. The study's leader, a mild-mannered professor from Montana, assumes she is a man, and is less than pleased to discover the truth. Once the scientists overcome the shock of having a woman on their team, they forge ahead on a summer of adventure, forming an enlightening web of relationships as they move from Mammoth Hot Springs to a camp high in the backcountry. But as they make their way collecting amid Yellowstone's beauty, the group is splintered by differing views on science, nature, and economics. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Brimming with humor, excitement, and the romance of the Yellowstone landscape, \u003ci\u003eLetters from Yellowstone\u003c\/i\u003e is a love letter to the joys of scientific discovery and America's majestic natural beauty, as well as a thoughtful reflection on environmentalism, Native American displacement, and feminism at the dawn of a new century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDiane Smith\u003c\/b\u003e studied western and environmental history at the University of Montana, and has lived in Montana for most of her life. Her first novel, \u003ci\u003e Letters from Yellowstone\u003c\/i\u003e, was the winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Fiction Prize and was nominated in the fiction category for the Mountains and Plains Booksellers Book Awards.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50704793796882,"sku":"9780140291810","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_0e7fcec0-d5a6-48a5-813c-e25fc097c4a3.jpg?v=1734479470","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/letters-from-yellowstone-9780140291810","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}