Author Talk with Donna Ericson, Author of Rooted at the Edge

in the Cordingley Room.
Donna Ericson will read excerpts from her book Rooted at the Edge, published by University of Nebraska Press, Bison Books.
Donna was raised riding horses, putting up hay, and herding cattle at Skyline Ranch. Her family’s nearly 1000-acre ranch lies in the North Hills at the edge of Missoula. As a young adult, she ranched there and on other leased ranches in western Montana. Many decades later, her life as both a rancher and landscape planner give Donna a unique perspective on ranching at the edge of a growing western town. She wrote this book, "...to share stories about a century of change in this iconic landscape and the threats it faces going forward."
Rooted at the Edge paints a portrait of a ranching community in a threatened landscape steeped in history, conflict, and beauty. In this narrative nonfiction work, Donna L. Erickson explores the hilly skirt of ground at the northern boundary of Missoula, separating the town from the wilderness beyond. The North Hills region represents the critical and often highly personal issues at play at the edge of many western towns.