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Keeping Private Idaho is the story of a New West, where cowboys are women and Indians wear Rollerblades. But the Old West doesn't give up easily -- the reaction to the increasing pressures of tourism and new development begins with locals giving tourists bad advice and misdirection, escalates to organized resistance complete with newsletter "tips and tricks" to play on tourists, and finally climaxes in terrorism. Keeping Private Idaho is an entertaining portrait of good intentions gone ballistic wherein an enigmatic figure from Nez Perce mythology (the notorious trickster Coyote) personifies the overreaction to tourism, enjoying first the distress, then the destruction of Idaho's visitors. Keeping Private Idaho is an easy book to pick up, and a hard one to put down! -- Midwest Book Review
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Rick Just is a native Idahoan who grew up on a ranch along the Blackfoot River. He has served as editor of Boise State University's nationally acclaimed literary magazine, cold-drill. During Idaho's Centennial, Rick wrote and produce the official Centennial radio series, "Idaho Snapshots,' which aired daily on stations statewide. The program won the 1990 Governor's Take Pride in Idaho award in the media category and received a Certificate of Merit in the national Take Pride in America program in 1991. His book, Idaho Snapshots, contains about half the programs from the radio series. Many of those vignettes appeared in the 1995 book Idaho unbound, albeit without permission. Rick's novel Keeping Private Idaho came out in 1996. He is co-editor of the fourth edition of Letters of Long Ago, by Agnes Just Reid, which was published in 1997. His young adult books, Wizard Chase, and Wizard Girl are books one and two of the Wizards Trilogy. They were published in 2000 and 2001. The final book of the trilogy, Wizards' End was published in 2002. Rick was the editor of 100 Years, Idaho and its Parks the centennial history of Idaho's state parks system, which was published in 2008. He is a member of the Idaho Writers Guild.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
This is Idaho!,
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This review is from: Keeping Private Idaho (Paperback)
This is Idaho! Rick Just nails it. We want to grab everything for ourselves, and then keep out the next grabber. Just empathizes with ranchers, miners, lumberjacks, farmers and travel promoters, even while poking fun at each of them. A fun read!
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Great for people who both like and hate newcomers,
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This review is from: Keeping Private Idaho (Paperback)
This book is for anyone who has experienced the dual joy/horror of their favorite place discovered. Idaho like most of the Northwest has becomne a hot spot for both travel and relocation. This funny book chronicles what it is like to be both a homesteader and a newcomer with great satire.
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She had her speed up, cruising the greenbelt with an easy, practiced rhythm, swoosh, swoosh, swoosh, leaning from side to side in a sine wave cadence, stretching out her strides. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Mary Lewis, Private Idaho, Bill Clark, Eagle Rock, Oregon Trail, Blaine Stope, Snake River, Frank Thompson, John Todd, Blackfoot River, Boise River, Bunker Hill, Kerry Hudson, Debbie Bennett Anderson, Eagle's Perch, Idaho Falls, Kreigh Sparks, Main Street, Mary Ellen, Shoshone Falls, Bill Baker, Bruneau Dunes State Park, Clara Carson Bennett, Clara Tree, Cream of Wheat New!
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She had her speed up, cruising the greenbelt with an easy, practiced rhythm, swoosh, swoosh, swoosh, leaning from side to side in a sine wave cadence, stretching out her strides. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Mary Lewis, Private Idaho, Bill Clark, Eagle Rock, Oregon Trail, Blaine Stope, Snake River, Frank Thompson, John Todd, Blackfoot River, Boise River, Bunker Hill, Kerry Hudson, Debbie Bennett Anderson, Eagle's Perch, Idaho Falls, Kreigh Sparks, Main Street, Mary Ellen, Shoshone Falls, Bill Baker, Bruneau Dunes State Park, Clara Carson Bennett, Clara Tree, Cream of Wheat New!
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- Idaho Snapshots by Rick Just in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Birds of Prey by Chuck Dixon on page 154
- Wizard Chase (The Wizards Trilogy, 1) by Rick Just in Front Matter
- Wizard Girl by Rick Just in Front Matter
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