Book Signing with Betsy Gaines Quammen
September 20 @ 10:00am
Country Bookshelf is thrilled to welcome Bozeman author Betsy Gaines Quammen for a book signing to celebrate the release of her new book, This Haunted Land: Reckoning with Ghosts and the Stories That Shape America.
Praised as “captivating” and “strikingly original” in a starred review from Library Journal, This Haunted Land investigates some of America’s most enduring legends and uncovers how ghost stories can illuminate some of the most unsettling parts of history.
Just in time for spooky season, Betsy will be signing copies of This Haunted Land starting at 10am on Sunday, September 20. We hope you can join us!
ABOUT THIS HAUNTED LAND
This Haunted Land investigates some of America’s most enduring legends and uncovers how ghost stories can illuminate some of the most unsettling parts of history.
With curiosity, a touch of skepticism, and an open-hearted willingness to learn from the living and the dead, Betsy Gaines Quammen takes readers on a journey into haunted towns, forgotten lives, and abandoned places. From a once-booming uranium mining community in Colorado to a fort on the coast of Florida that predates the United States itself, this riveting exploration of memory, mourning, folklore, and social anxiety shows that politicized efforts to rewrite history can only be defeated by bearing witness to the specters of the past.
ABOUT BETSY GAINES QUAMMEN
Betsy Gaines Quammen is the author of American Zion: Cliven Bundy, God, and Public Lands in the West and True West: Myth and Mending on the Far Side of America, winner of the Reading the West Book Award. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, New York Daily News, and History News Network. She holds a PhD from Montana State University and lives in Montana with her husband, writer David Quammen, and a bunch of scaly and furry rescued critters.
