The last Indian of Seattle lived in a shack down among the greased piers and coal bunkers of the new city, on what was then called West Street, her hovel in the grip of Puget Sound, off plumb in a ...

Timothy Egan is the award-winning author of several excellent books on 20th century America, winning the National Book Award for “The Worst Hard Times” . In “Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher” Egan ...

Timothy Egan is a familiar name to many of us here in Yakima who remember his 2007 visit to give a lecture on "The Worst Hard Time," his National Book Award-winning history of the Dust Bowl. A Seattle ...

First picture -- Encounter on a volcano -- The Big Idea -- Indian Napoleon -- With the President -- In the den of the titan -- Anglos in Indian country -- The artist and his audience -- The Custer ...

How a lone man's epic obsession led to one of America's greatest cultural treasures: Prizewinning writer Timothy Egan tells the riveting, cinematic story behind the most famous photographs in Native ...