Bryce Andrews chronicles the life of a grizzly bear named Willie and her three cubs in Down From The Mountain: the Life and Death of a Grizzly Bear. Andrews, who works a ranch in Montana’s Mission Valley, reports first-hand about the encroachment of both man and bear on each other’s environments. Both a conservation polemic and …
OK, in my opinion, he needs the next PNBA award. I so loved Pete’s latest experience tending salmon eggs in the backcountry. Pete is never better than in his thoughtful accounting of years spent outdoors. With humor and grace– this is a another glimpse into heart that’s as big as his mustache. I’ve always counted …
Shann Ray Ferch may just be the most peaceful man I’ve ever met. I don’t know the Dali Lama and I totally missed seeing the Pope during his USA Tour 2015, but Shann Ray will serve as a satisfactory, calm-centered substitute for those two gentlemen. Shann the writer is every bit as open-hearted and gracious …
“Fuller, author of Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight, is back with another deeply personal memoir. After the collapse of her marriage, she finds herself unexpectedly looking back to her African childhood and eccentric family, and is forced to confront her life head-on. This honest and often wryly humorous book is not to be …
“I shirked a lot of household chores this weekend to finish The Home Place, which alone might not be a glowing review (who wants to do chores?), but it means I set aside everything for 2 whole days. I don’t do that very often! I just had to find out what really happened. The characters are all …
“In Badluck Way, Bryce Andrews has given us an insider look at the real life of that mythical Western creature, the cowboy. Even better, his story, inextricably intertwined with the story of the Yellowstone wolves, is emotionally taut, and completely honest. The bared soul of a cowboy—even one who originally hails from the city— makes …
Bryce Andrews made a strong impression on his bookseller audience at the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association tradeshow in October. His memoir, Badluck Way: A Year on the Ragged Edge of the West, is a thoughtful adventure into the windswept plains of Montana, across which he maps the physical and spiritual endurance necessary to keep himself …
Ivan Doig is a wordsmith of the first rank. I just finished reading his latest tome, Sweet Thunder, his fourteenth book. Many if not all are set in Montana during contemporary and historical time periods. Sweet Thunder features Morrie Morgan (Llewellyn) who had previous appearances in The Whistling Season. I have not read that book but now I think I …
“In this sequel, just out today, readers will be able to follow Hattie Big Sky to San Francisco from Montana, in part two of Kirby Larson’s saga about the teenager who took on a homestead and almost made it work. These novels have appeal to readers teen and up and book clubs, adolescent as well as …
