The western skyline before us was filled high with a steel-blue army of mountains, drawn in battalions of peaks and reefs and gorges and crags as far along the entire rim of the earth as could be seen. 'We came up over the crest and were walled to a stop. Reuse: This item is offered under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license You may reuse this item for non-commercial purposes as long as you provide attribution and offer any derivative works under a similar license. Doig, Montana State University Ivan Doig Archive, Object ID 2602-B154-img0392.jpg Other Works by Ivan Doig that May be of Interest Read Annotations of Ivan Doig's Bibliography to learn more about Ivan Doig's books, prepared by Jan Zauha, MSU Library. This House of Sky: Landscapes of a Western Mind (1978) Fiction, the McCaskill Trilogy Ivan Doig's Literary Contributions Non-Fiction Learn more about Ivan Doig's Biography and Bibliographic Record at the Ivan Doig Archive in the Montana State University Library. Ivan Doig died April 9, 2015, from multiple myeloma' (Jodi Rasker, Montana State University Library). He lived in Seattle, Washington, with his wife Carol Muller Doig. At century's end, the San-Francisco Chronicle polls named Ivan Doig the only living author in the top 12 of both the Best Fiction of the American West and Best Non-Fiction of the American West. His 16 works of fiction and non-fiction won him numerous awards that propelled him to national prominence as one of the West's most distinguished authors. in history from the University of Washington in 1969, and during his career was the recipient of three honorary doctorates, including one from Montana State University in 1984. A former ranch hand, newspaperman and magazine editor, Doig graduated from Northwestern University where he received bachelor's and master's degrees in journalism. He grew up in Montana along the east slope of the Rocky Mountains, where much of his writing takes place.

'Ivan Clark Doig, a third-generation Montanan of Scottish descent, was born Jin White Sulphur Springs, Montana, the only child of Charlie Doig and Berneta Ringer Doig. Montana native son and award-winning author Ivan Doig (1939-2015) is one of the most-beloved authors who chronicled life in the northern Rocky Mountain region in the latter half of the 20th Century.

Provenance: Ivan Doig in cowboy hat with hand on chin,, Ivan Doig Archive, Montana State University (MSU) Library, Bozeman, MT

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