In 1989, newspaper reporter Jim Carrier spent three months with the Spann family on their ranch and three months with the Knight family on the Ute Mountain Reservation in Colorado. Through daily contact with each family, Carrier dispells many of the myths and cliches that exist about the traditional lives of "Cowboys and Indians."
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Jim Carrier, a roaming western columnist for the Denver Post, has been a journalist for 30 years. He has also written several books including West of the Divide, which won a Colorado Book Award. Carrier lives in Denver, Colorado.
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Jim Carrier is an award-winning journalist, author and civil rights activist. In a 45-year career, Jim has worked as a radio newsman, AP editor and correspondent, newspaper managing editor, roaming columnist, freelance writer and filmmaker.
Author of nine books, he also has been published in the National Geographic, the New York Times, USA Today, the Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, and Orion and Cruising World magazines. His work is included in BEST AMERICAN SCIENCE AND NATURE WRITING 2010.
For 13 years Jim roamed the American West as the Rocky Mountain Ranger for The Denver Post, which took him through 500,000 miles, 7,665 sunsets and 87 pairs of Levis. In 1997, Carrier bought a sailboat, named it Ranger, and set out to sail the Pacific. He diverted to Alabama because of a hate crime against a black man. Volunteering at the Southern Poverty Law Center, he wrote Ten Ways to Fight Hate, a community guide distributed to one million officials and human rights activists. In 1999, Carrier developed Tolerance.org, which has won two Webbys for activist Web sites.
In 2002, Carrier sailed Ranger across the Atlantic and into the Mediterranean, journeys chronicled in Cruising World magazine. In 2003 he combined his love of navigation and story telling in IntelliTours, a technology company that created GPS-guided audio tours.
In 2005, after losing his home and office in Hurricane Katrina, he returned to Montgomery where he wrote, directed and narrated, Faces in the Water, a documentary film featured in the Civil Rights Memorial Center.
Carrier and his daughter, Amy, descend from Martha Carrier who was hanged as a witch in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692. Carrier resides in Madison, Wisconsin with his wife, Trish O'Kane, a journalist and PhD candidate in environmental studies at the University of Wisconsin. In Madison he founded the nonprofit Wisconsin Film School (www.wisconsinfilmschool.org) and Wild Warner (www.wildwarner.org). Jim is an avid banjo player and cook.
Author of nine books, he also has been published in the National Geographic, the New York Times, USA Today, the Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, and Orion and Cruising World magazines. His work is included in BEST AMERICAN SCIENCE AND NATURE WRITING 2010.
For 13 years Jim roamed the American West as the Rocky Mountain Ranger for The Denver Post, which took him through 500,000 miles, 7,665 sunsets and 87 pairs of Levis. In 1997, Carrier bought a sailboat, named it Ranger, and set out to sail the Pacific. He diverted to Alabama because of a hate crime against a black man. Volunteering at the Southern Poverty Law Center, he wrote Ten Ways to Fight Hate, a community guide distributed to one million officials and human rights activists. In 1999, Carrier developed Tolerance.org, which has won two Webbys for activist Web sites.
In 2002, Carrier sailed Ranger across the Atlantic and into the Mediterranean, journeys chronicled in Cruising World magazine. In 2003 he combined his love of navigation and story telling in IntelliTours, a technology company that created GPS-guided audio tours.
In 2005, after losing his home and office in Hurricane Katrina, he returned to Montgomery where he wrote, directed and narrated, Faces in the Water, a documentary film featured in the Civil Rights Memorial Center.
Carrier and his daughter, Amy, descend from Martha Carrier who was hanged as a witch in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692. Carrier resides in Madison, Wisconsin with his wife, Trish O'Kane, a journalist and PhD candidate in environmental studies at the University of Wisconsin. In Madison he founded the nonprofit Wisconsin Film School (www.wisconsinfilmschool.org) and Wild Warner (www.wildwarner.org). Jim is an avid banjo player and cook.
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