High Country A Novel |
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| Author:
| Wyman, Willard |
| Series title: | Literature of the American West Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8061-3697-4 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2005 |
| Publisher: | University of Oklahoma Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $24.95 |
Book Description:
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During the Great Depression, young Ty Hardin is sent from his family's failing Montana ranch to learn from the last of the great packers, Fenton Pardee, legendary in the Montana Rockies for his packing adventures across the Swan Range all the way to the Big Divide. Writing in the tradition of Norman Maclean's
A River Runs through It, Willard Wyman shares techniques of breaking and packing and leading animals into forbidding country, hunting and tracking, and making camp....
More DescriptionDuring the Great Depression, young Ty Hardin is sent from his family's failing Montana ranch to learn from the last of the great packers, Fenton Pardee, legendary in the Montana Rockies for his packing adventures across the Swan Range all the way to the Big Divide. Writing in the tradition of Norman Maclean's A River Runs through It, Willard Wyman shares techniques of breaking and packing and leading animals into forbidding country, hunting and tracking, and making camp. Wyman brings you so close to the packer's life you smell the leather, sweat, and oil.