SOMEWHAT TROUBLED WATERS is the third book by Pete Sinclair about our effort to inhabit the American West in a manner fitting to the landscape.

WE ASPIRED: THE LAST INNOCENT AMERICANS is set in the mountains of Alaska and Wyoming and the life of mountaineers.

THINKING OUT LOUD THROUGH THE AMERICAN WEST explores some of the controversies: beginning with an incident in California in the establishment of the Oregon Trail by John Charles Fremont and company; the fires of 1988 in the Rockies and controversies about the let burn policy; and the controversy over the protection of Northern Spotted Owl in the Northwest.