Abstract
Willa Cather lived in Pittsburgh from 1896 to 1906, and returned frequently to write in her study at her friend Isabelle McClung’s house until 1915 when Judge McClung died and the house was sold. As an enduring gift to the literary life of Pittsburgh and to honor her 20 years of writing in the city, Oresick has collected Willa Cather’s six Pittsburgh short stories for the frst time in one volume. This is the second volume of the Marianna Brown Dietrich Notable Book Series featuring another female author of national import.
Gifford Pinchot may not be a household name today, but this Progressive-era figure would arguably feel comfortable in at a modern political debate. As the first Chief Forester of the Forestry Service, a Progressive Republican, and a two-term Governor of Pennsylvania, Pinchot’s exhaustive career spanned many decades and encompassed numerous issues. In Gifford Pinchot: Selected Writings, editor Char Miller has chosen a broad range of the eclectic conservationist and politician’s writings and speeches that tap into the mindset of an early 20th-century social, political, and environmental activist. A scholar on both environmental history and Pinchot, Miller rightly argues that Pinchot’s writings are worth analyzing today, particularly as climate change and humanity’s relationship with the environment continue to be argued.