Ruby McConnell is the author of a new book, Wilderness and the American Spirit, a creative nonfiction published by Overcup Press.
Wilderness and the American Spirit retells the story of the American West putting our national mythology in context with our current environmental crisis. Ruby McConnell is a geologist who uses the Applegate Trail—the lesser known southern alternative to the Oregon Trail—as a vehicle to tell stories in the same way that Rachel Carson used birds and Edward Abbey used Arches.