Badluck Way: A Year on the Ragged Edge of the West

Badluck Way: A Year on the Ragged Edge of the West

â‚¬Å“Much more than a coming-of-age story, Badluck Way is an important meditation on what it means to share space and breathe the same air as truly wild animals, and the necessary damage that can occur when boundaries are crossedâ‚¬Â (Tom Groneberg, author of The Secret Life of Cowboys).

In this gripping memoir of a young man, a wolf, their parallel lives and ultimate collision, Bryce Andrews describes life on the remote, windswept Sun Ranch in southwest Montana. The Sunâ‚¬s twenty thousand acres of rangeland occupy a still-wild corner of southwest Montanaâ‚¬"a high valley surrounded by mountain ranges and steep creeks with portentous names like Grizzly and Bad Luck. Just over the border from Yellowstone National Park, the Sun holds giant herds of cattle and elk amid many predatorsâ‚¬"bears, mountain lions, and wolves.

In lyrical, haunting language, Andrews recounts marathon days and nights of building fences, riding, roping, and otherwise learning the hard business of caring for cattle, an initiation that changes him from an idealistic city kid into a skilled ranch hand. But when wolves suddenly begin killing the ranchâ‚¬s cattle, Andrews has to shoulder a rifle, chase the pack, and do what heâ‚¬d hoped he would never have to do.

Called â‚¬Å“an elegant memoirâ‚¬Â by the Great Falls Tribune, Badluck Way is about transformation and complications, about living with dirty hands every day. It is about the hard choices that wake us at night and take a lifetime to reconcile. Above all, Badluck Way celebrates the breathtaking beauty of wilderness and the satisfaction of hard work on some of the harshest, most beautiful land in the world.
Country USA
Brand Atria Books
Manufacturer Atria Books
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber black & white illustrations, maps
ReleaseDate 2014-07-29
UnitCount 1
Format Illustrated
EANs 9781476710846

Country	USA
Brand	Atria Books
Manufacturer	Atria Books
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	black & white illustrations, maps
ReleaseDate	2014-07-29
UnitCount	1
Format	Illustrated
EANs	9781476710846

Badluck Way: A Year on the Ragged Edge of the West

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