This is the book we have all been waiting for. The authors do an amazing job of describing, in understandable terms, how to perform meaningful microarray experiments. I highly recommend this seminal work.

This book is an excellent educational source for the rapidly exploding field of bioinformatics, particularly in the area of functional genomics- i.e. teasing out the functions of the thousands of genes in the genome. Described in clear detail are many approaches to the complex analysis of RNA expression array data, including the appropriate situations for use and advantages and pitfalls inherent in each approach. The reader will learn biological theory integrated with mathematical concepts. The authors also clearly have a lucid understanding of the technical strengths and weaknesses of microarray technology.

The data miners have arrived and are pitching camp around the genomic wellsprings of data opened up by DNA microarrays. To extract the good stuff, however, experiments must be designed and analyzed with care.

This book gathers the pragmatic, candid, useful advice from the pioneers that you'll want to have if you want to join them.

John Gregory, the Georgia gold miner who saved the Pike's Peak gold rush and gave his name to the Gregory Toll Road, would have loved this book! It's all here, that terrible first road into the North Fork of Clear Creek in the Colorado mountains, the toll road tht followed, and the people who followed the roads. Full of original quotes and pictures. I was amazed to learn that the miners set the mountains on fire in order to find their way around. The fires, which were visible far out on the prairie, were called the miners' fires.

This is the only book written about the toll road named for John Hamilton Gregory. The road traveled from the prairies north of Clear Creek through the mountains to the gold mining camps in the Little Kingdom of Gilpin, in the Colorado Rocky Mountains. It was followed by thousands of goldseekers jubliant with hope. Many returned, chased away by winter and poor prospects. Theirs was a chorus of hope mingled with despair, a chorus which this book captures. I enjoyed it very much. Today's road through Golden Gate Canyon follows that old toll road.

This is a fun trip through the early days in Colorado's History. The pictures are well chosen. Anyone who has ever spent time in Colorado should pick this up! I got my copy and could not put it down.

Patrick Morris has written an exceptional book detailing Anaconda's unique history. He captures the flavor of a city whose birth was sculpted by the great dreams of pioneer capitalists (those famous warring copper kings) and very hard-working pioneering men and women. To read this history of a town built upon a copper smelting industry, as documented through the prism of Anaconda perspectives--and not just as another sideline adjunct to Butte's storied copper mining--is a long overdue pleasure. This is a very readable book that speaks to Anaconda's importance to the copper mining and smelting industry in Montana.

Seems very factual and concise about the early history of the town, Marcus Daly the man and the Anaconda company. Very interesting and I am sure that everyone will enjoy reading it. Very good insight into the area history.

Jean Rikhoff gives us history, painstakingly researched and interlaced with characters that we can really care about. I hated to see this book end and plan to read her other books.

I am thrilled to see this page-turner back in print. I've been recommending it ever since I read it years ago as one of the best historical novels based in the Adirondacks, the first of the trilogy. Now that Rikhoff's books are back, my gift-giving problems are solved.

This is a charming book about family life. It brings tears and laughter. Fun to read with some serious essays added to it.

David M. Emmons, in The Butte Irish, examines the development of Butte, Montana, as an Irish town, tracing the story from the Potato Famine to about 1925. He focuses on two major questions: (a) What made Butte such a popular destination for Irish immigrants, both directly from Ireland and from other Irish areas of the US? and, (b) How did the development of an Irish enclave in Butte affect the development of the city? He goes on to examine the evolution of class relations within the Irish in Butte. Emmons describes Butte as a unique location in America for the study of an ethnic community. He argues that the town developed in such a way and at such a time that it was one of the only towns in the country to have a strong working-class, immigrant community in a position of major influence and power. There were several keys that made this path of city evolution possible. The first was the switch from silver and gold mining to copper production in the 1870's. This is key for Butte's "Irishness" on several levels. First, because of the large capital investment required for copper mining, Butte was forced to industrialize to a much greater extent than other major gold and silver mining camps of the West. Thus, Butte was the only one of these mining camps to become a major city. Immigrants from many of these camps came to Butte in large numbers. The timing of the beginning of Butte's copper era is a second major factor. The Irish Potato Famine of the 1840's caused huge numbers of Irish to immigrate to America. In the years immediately following the famine, the Irish were nearly forty percent of those immigrating to the United States. Large numbers of Irish continued to immigrate in the next thirty years, supplying the US with many unskilled workers. Many of these Irish went to the mining camps of the west, the coal mines of Pennsylvania, or the copper mines of Michigan, because mining was one of the only industries they were familiar with. As many of the western mining camps became "played out," or ran out of viable ore, in the late nineteenth century, the Irish looked to the developing Butte. Because Butte was becoming an established city only when the Irish started going there, it did not have a previously existing community of entrenched middle class Americans, nor did it have a prior political structure. This is another key difference between Butte and other towns with sizable Irish populations such as Boston or San Francisco. In pre-existing towns and cities, the middle class often looked down on those of the working class, or at least had control of the political and social structure of the area. It is a well-known fact that Marcus Daly was one of the main reasons so many Irish came to Butte. Daly was the owner of the Anaconda Mining Company, and a strong Irish nationalist. His hiring policies were famous throughout the West, and even in Ireland, as being very generous to the Irish. Emmons lays out these reasons, detailing them extensively. His research was thorough, utilizing "two full carloads" of primary materials including records of Butte churches and Irish social organizations, letters, newspapers. Also cited in Emmons' bibliography are extensive interviews and secondary sources. Emmons is just as thorough in his treatment of the second question. He considers the miners of Butte on many levels. One of the more interesting themes of the book is the discussion of conflicting loyalties within the Irish enclave of the Mining City. The author frames this as the question of whether the people considered themselves "working Irish-Americans" or "Irish-American workers." He examines the politics of the struggling Ireland and its relationship with England, the structure of the Butte social organizations and the way their roles and importances, both absolute and relative to one another, changed and grew during this period, and changing demographics within the Irish and the rest of Butte-Silver Bow. The only complaint to be lodged against The Butte Irish is the author's occasional use of difficult sentence structure. I can't find the quote I was going to use here, but there were a few to choose from. The Butte Irish is a well-written and well-executed account of the development of a town and community, offering many insights into working class ethnography, labor relations, Montana history, and Irish history, among others. Emmons has managed to cover aspects of all these areas, even while maintaining a strong focus and cohesiveness throughout the book.

I had this book at one time and gave it to a freind when she moved to Dallas,TX for a teaching career and now I'm trying to find a copy for myself again to remember the wonderful times and history of what must be one of the most historical cities in America. I never thought I say this when I was younger and could hardly wait to get out of that town , But I truely miss Butte ,the hometown feeling and the familarity of my youth. Don't matter where or how far away I live , Butte will always be Home !

This guide provides detailed maps of where the best waters are, and how to get there. It also provides valuable hatch information. We also had great success in some of the Gunnison waters as well.

Hamilton was one of the small ranchers who traveled to Dakota after the Civil War to find his fortune. Written years after the events described, the clarity with which he recalls the events and the details of daily life are amazing. The good-humored style and the simple stories have the power to make you wish you could have gone along with those hardy pioneers.

I found this book while searching for works on Crested Butte and bought it not knowing what I would find. Having fallen on love with the Town of Crested Butte and the surrounding wilderness I have tried to learn about the area. As a enter the book, I found myself walking the town through her characterizations. Having spent many days in town, I could feel the places and people of the old town and the lives of the early settlers. I could walk the Elk Avenue of old, envision the miners housing, the whistle of the train and the danger of the mines. Her research of Crested Butte brings life to her story. Although her characters are fictional the lifes they lived were real and can be seen even today in the twon. For anyone who has been to Crested Butte, the book is a great read about a special place and for those that have yet to see the jewel of Crested Butte, the book will give you the feel of the type of people that clung to a life in the hard times of the novel. After reading the novel, if you visit Crested Butte you can sense the history in seeing the CB Cemetary, the Old Town, the Forest Queen, The Company Store, the old Catholic Church and Donita's restaurant (built in the first floor of the original Elk Mountain Lodge). Read the book, visit the town, and fall in love with the beauty of both.

Growing up, my Father and Step-Mother lived in Crested Butte and I would visit every summer and winter. Even though this novel takes place in the late 1800's (when Crested Butte became a town), it brought me back. I remember seeing the old mines, the Elk Mountain Lodge, the cemetary - and Main Street. It felt like I was there again in a warm cabin on a quiet snowy winter night or, a cool summer afternoon with the bluest sky with the 'Red Lady' - Crested Butte Mountain - towering over the quaint and romantic little town.

The town is unique and special - has obviously changed over the years - and makes a great backdrop for this historically congruent novel. I happened upon this novel and I was very surprised at how instantly it gripped me. I loved the characters, the plot was interesting and unpredictable, and the historical accuracy was a nice bonus. I highly recommend it.

Crested Butte is a novel that not only entertains, but educates. History comes alive and the reader is there, living it right along with Oden's characters. The main character, Vini, takes up residence instantly in the reader's heart. You can't help but love her and cheer her on. You cry with her. You laugh with her. And, you grow to love Crested Butte right along with her. Vini's life in Crested Butte keeps one turning pages. You can't put this novel down! Oden is a master with her pen--or nowadays, I should say with her keyboard. It's obvious she's researched this town and knows its history inside and out. Trust me, this novel will not disappoint. Buy it, read it and cherish it.
Diane Meholick, author of A SWITCH IN TIME