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DESCRIPTION:In his new book The Dreamer and the Doctor: A Forest Lover and a Physician 
 on the Edge of the Frontier author Jack Nisbet recreates 
 turn-of-the-twentieth-century Northwest, where the lives and passions of an 
 American physician and her Swedish naturalist husband helped shape a 
 territory on the cusp of change.\n\nDr. Carrie Leiberg, a pioneer 
 physician, fought hard for public health while nurturing both a troubled 
 son and a fruit orchard. Her husband, John Leiberg, was a Swedish immigrant 
 and self-taught naturalist who transformed himself from pickax Idaho 
 prospector to special field agent for the US Forest Commission and warned 
 Washington DC of ecological devastation of public lands. The Leiberg story 
 opens a window into the human and natural landscape of a century past that 
 reflects all the thorny issues of our present time.\n\nJack Nisbet is the 
 author of several collections of essays that explore the human and natural 
 history of the Northwest, including Purple Flat Top, Visible Bones, and 
 Ancient Places. He has also written award-winning biographies of fur agent 
 and cartographer David Thompson (Sources of the River) and naturalist David 
 Douglas (The Collector).\n\n “Jack Nisbet’s The Dreamer and the Doctor 
 is a textured, insightful history of the waning frontier days of the 
 American West that reads like a novel. The featured couple, a female doctor 
 and an obsessed botanist, provide an unusual lens to a time that is both 
 familiar and antique, a time when science and medicine were rapidly 
 evolving but were still intensely personal. Entwined in the narrative are 
 the roots of the battle for Western public lands, the impact of federal 
 science, and a growing awareness of the impact of forest fires.”\n 
 —Kirk Johnson, Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/06/09/18823812.php
SUMMARY:A Doctor and A Botanist Whose Passion Shaped Public Lands of the West
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