Ivan Doig’s 16 original works, published between 1978 and 2015, remain popular with readers today. Whether fiction or non-fiction, his books provide a window into western history generally, and a way into Montana in particular, where Doig spent his childhood.

The list below features first-edition artwork and includes the author’s 3 nonfiction books, beginning with his breakthrough memoir, This House of Sky: Landscapes of a Western Mind (1978); as well as his 13 fiction works, including his well-known McCaskill Trilogy -- English Creek (1984), Dancing at the Rascal Fair (1987), and Ride with Me, Mariah Montana (1990) -- set along the Rocky Mountain front in northern Montana. Doig’s final novel, Last Bus to Wisdom (2015), offers a picaresque story of a boy and his great uncle as they explore the very real and mythic West of the mid-20th century.

 

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Non-Fiction

book cover for this house of sky   book cover for winter brothers   book cover for heart earth     

Fiction

The Sea Runners book cover.   English Creek book cover image.   Dancing at the Rascal Fair book cover image.   Ride with Me, Mariah Montana book cover image.   Bucking the Sun book cover image.

Mountain Time book cover image.    Prairie Nocturne book cover image.    The Whistling Season book cover image.    The Eleventh Man book cover image.    Work Song book cover image.       

The Bartender's Tale book cover image.    Sweet Thunder book cover image.    Last Bus to Wisdom book cover image.