Cody teaches history at Eastern Washington and Walla Walla Universities, has practiced law on behalf of America's biggest corporations and commonest people, preaches the gospel at many Pacific Northwest churches, and lives in the wilderness off-grid.

If A River Runs Through It was a man, it would be David. And not just because he's an accomplished angler. David casts the river of life the way he does the Yakima: with finesse and love.

Child of God and Appalachian hollers, Liv is the mountain queen of Tennessee, but you'll never hear her tell it that way. She listens sharper than anyone and spends her time studying systems, political and mental. Scrappy, her grit is only outdone by her reverence for her mountains.

Scott isn't one of the most popular professors in the American West because he's riveting and fun, though he is. His true charm is that he elevates every person in the path of his charisma. A man of infinite resilience, Scott lifts every room he graces.

Tommy would have invented art if it hadn't been already. His creative single-mindedness rivals Michael Jackson and Freddie Mercury and the churn of his ideas is as inexhaustible as an Arctic Tern.