Local Authors In Conversation- Maggie Anderson and Doug Peacock

28 West Main Street,Bozeman MT 59715

15 June, 2023

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In our IN CONVERSATION series we are inviting our community to join incredible local authors in conversation about a recent title. This June we are excited to announce Maggie Anderson's book BETWEEN ROCK AND A HARD PLACE, Anderson will be speaking with WAS IT WORTH IT? author Doug Peacock at Country Bookshelf on Thursday, June 15th, at 6pm. After flying into Bozeman from Wisconsin, sometime in her late 30s, Maggie Anderson rented a car and drove up the Gallatin Canyon. She knew right then, driving that beautiful, treacherous road with tears running down her face, that her previous zip codes would be replaced by making that stunning Valley her home. Her love affair with the mountain west was born in that rental car. Maggie spent the lion’s share of her professional life as a Hired Pen, crafting communications for businesses, educational institutions, medical facilities and anything in between. She wrote scripts for everything from Magnetic Resonance Imaging to Vocational Education Programs to a medication for horses to prevent a tick-born disease and the community education of public school bond and funding elections. Her expertise was used to produce written material, videos, websites, tv and radio commercials and gala grand openings. Maggie wrote for others almost daily for decades, but only in recent years did she begin to write for herself. Her first book, Between Rock and a Hard Place, was published in 2023. She lives in Paradise Valley with two dogs, two horses and a very delinquent cat. She still finds her peace in wild places in the mountains and advocating for those places. Author and naturalist Doug Peacock, a disabled Vietnam veteran and Green Beret medic, was the real-life model for Edward Abbey’s George Washington Hayduke. He has published widely on wilderness issues ranging from grizzly bears to buffalo, from the Sonoran desert to the fjords of British Columbia, from the tigers of Siberia to the blue sheep of Nepal. His books include Grizzly Years: In Search of the American Wilderness, ¡Baja!, Walking It Off: A Veteran’s Chronicle of War and Wilderness, and The Essential Grizzly: The Mingled Fates of Men and Bears (co-authored with Andrea Peacock), and Was It Worth It: A Wilderness Warrior’s Long Trail Home (winner of the 2023 National Outdoor Book Award, and a 2022 award for literature from the American Academy of Arts & Letters). Peacock received Guggenheim and Lannan fellowships for his work on archaeology, climate change and the peopling of North America, published in 2013 as In the Shadow of the Sabertooth: Global Warming, the Origins of the First Americans, and the Terrible Beasts of the Pleistocene. Sabertooth won the 2014 High Plains Book Award in the Science category. Doug co-founded the Wildlife Damage Review, Vital Ground and Round River Conservation Studies. For more than 25 years, he served as chairman of the board of directors for Round River, which works with indigenous people and governments in Africa, North, South and Central America to develop region-wide conservation strategies protecting and enhancing intact ecosystems. He’s also the founder of Save the Yellowstone Grizzly, a nonprofit dedicated to fighting for the survival of grizzly bears in the lower 48 states. For his service in Vietnam, Doug was awarded Soldier’s Medal, the Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry, and the Bronze Star. He lives in Emigrant, Montana, with his wife Andrea, two collies dogs and an orange tabby.