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In the essay collection "Somewhere, Idaho," former journalist Ralph Bartholdt colorfully documents adventures in Idaho's backcountry, taking readers on an all-seasons tour to quiet hideouts, podunk taverns and secluded streams.In a literary, journalistic style and with dry humor, Bartholdt describes the wild landscapes and people of Idaho's Panhandle and Snake River country encountered while he hunts birds and big game, casts flies and ponders the importance of old boots, a gun, or a whitefish run."Everyone wants an empty road to a fishing destination. It's more than a nudge. In a world of digital grit like tallow on our tongues, it has become a necessity that says odds don't matter, only the roar of the water matters and the cold heft of sky in a day stunted by time," Bartholdt writes in the essay, "Big River, Empty Roads."Bartholdt worked as a journalist in Montana and Idaho and was field editor for the Idaho Outdoor Journal.

Tank Creek is a timeless account of North Idaho's outdoor lifestyle. With humor and passion former journalist Ralph Bartholdt captures the spirit of the Idaho Panhandle's wild places from the Snake and Salmon rivers to the Coeur d'Alene and St. Joe mountains of the Bitterroot Range. Tank Creek chronicles with erudition and insight the experiences, memories and lore of rural inhabitants as they hunt, fish and embrace the sanctity of their surroundings."This is how it works and why people say fly fishing is just another of life's mirrors: You breathe. You forget about the broken things. You let your heartbeat mark time and focus on future endeavors, count cadence, let distance and past fall away," Bartholdt writes in "The Whole Day.".

In someplace, Idaho Ralph Bartholdt animates the stories of hunters and anglers in Idaho's Panhandle backcountry. They chase birds and big game, cast flies and gather to shoot the breeze in roadside taverns, gas stations and cafes. These short essays in the literary newspaper tradition are a passionate tribute to outdoor life in the Gem State. someplace, Idaho is a tribute to the Panhandle's quiet places and their tempering of our often chaotic modern existence.

In Sometime, Idaho journalist Ralph Bartholdt animates the stories of hunters and anglers who ply the mountainous backcountry of Idaho's Panhandle as they hunt birds and big game, cast flies to sea run steelhead and native trout and gather in taverns and gas stations to share the memories. These short essays in the literary newspaper tradition are a passionate tribute to outdoor life. Sometime, Idaho is the memory of the Idaho Panhandle's quiet places, and its tempering of our often chaotic modern existence.