In the turn-of-the-twentieth-century Northwest, the lives and passions of an American physician and her Swedish naturalist husband helped shape a territory on the cusp of change--from the author of Sources of the River and The Collector.
JACK NISBET is a historian, teacher, and author who focuses on the intersection of human history and natural history in the Pacific Northwest. He is the author of the highly regarded Sources of the River, for which he was awarded the Murray Morgan Prize by the Washington State Historical Society.
"Jack Nisbet continues to educate, entertain, and mesmerize with
this meticulously written and researched story of two
people-of-destiny whose intelligence and passion transformed our
awareness and understanding of the Northwest. Part history, part
adventure tale, part love story, part futuristic foreshadowing,
this book fascinated me from beginning to end with its eloquence,
urgency, and quiet intensity."
--Kim Barnes, author of In the Wilderness: Coming of Age in
Unknown Country
"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."
--Kirk Johnson, Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural
History
"For more than two decades, Spokane teacher and historian Jack
Nisbet has been telling the stories of the Intermountain West. Now
he's turning his careful attention to Dr. Carrie Leiberg and her
husband, John Leiberg, who arrived in the Idaho Panhandle in 1885
and homesteaded on the southern tip of Lake Pend Oreille."
--The Spokesman-Review "Jack Nisbet ought to be declared a national
treasure. Over the past twenty years, his interest in the natural
history of the inland Pacific Northwest has produced a series of
highly readable biographies of early explorers that have enriched
our understanding of the natural and cultural history of the
region. This latest book, a double biography of the botanist John
Leiberg and his physician wife, Carrie Leiberg, shows Nisbet's
characteristic attention both to people and to the
environment."
--Oregon Historical Quarterly
"Early on in The Dreamer and the Doctor, the reader emerges
from a gorgeous description of North Idaho as Swedish prospector
John Leiberg must have found it...In the end, this is the story of
two flawed, extraordinary people who contributed to our
understanding of the Northwest, both of their time but remarkably
forward-thinking."
--The Inlander
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