The name Oklahoma is a combination of two Choctaw words…

“At the wedding, women served a dish of cabbage that had been shredded by wooden kraut cutters, mixed with ground pork and onion, wrapped…

— Timothy Egan

The larger question for the Northwest, where the cities are barely a hundred years old but contain three-fourths of the population, is whether the…

— Timothy Egan

“Polygamy was common [amongst the Navajo], but women had superior property rights, owning sheep and the houses. A man who deserted his family would…

— Timothy Egan

“Going to the outhouse was an ordeal, a wade through shoulder-high drifts, forced to dig to make forward progress.”

— Timothy Egan

Most of the writers I know work every day, in obscurity and close to poverty, trying to say one thing well and true. Day…

— Timothy Egan

“Of all the countries in the world, we Americans have been the greatest destroyers of land of any race of people barbaric or civilized,"…

— Timothy Egan

“Though a degree from Yale was not required, Pinchot wanted his foresters to be able to write well, for the numerous reports that their…

— Timothy Egan

Here in the Great Lakes region, a fourth year in a row of declining water levels has caused millions of dollars in losses for…

— Timothy Egan

Last year, [Pope Francis] was asked about his secret to happiness. He said slow down. Take time off. Live and let live. Don't proselytize.…

— Timothy Egan

I am beginning to believe that nothing is quite so uncertain as facts. (Edward Curtis)

— Timothy Egan

The villainous sun and the starved bank did not seem related—yet.

— Timothy Egan

You need messiness and magic, serendipity and insanity. Creativity comes from time off, and time out.

— Timothy Egan

“To look at the face [of Princess Angeline] and not see humanity is to lack humanity.”

— Timothy Egan

“The [Apache] tribe was under siege by government agents, who had jailed some of the medicine men for practicing their rituals. Freedom of religion…

— Timothy Egan

“There is not in the world a more ignoble character than the mere money-getting American, insensitive to every duty, regardless of every principle, bent…

— Timothy Egan