Screen LibraryBadluck Way : a year on the ragged edge of the West /
A narrative of a year on a southwest Montana ranch describes the author's time building fences, riding, roping, and caring for cattle while confronting a brutal pack of wolves in ways that challenged his views about conservation.
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Atria Books,
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| Publisher Address: | New York, New York : |
| Publication Dates: | 2014. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | First Atria Books hardcover edition. |
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| Summary: |
A narrative of a year on a southwest Montana ranch describes the author's time building fences, riding, roping, and caring for cattle while confronting a brutal pack of wolves in ways that challenged his views about conservation. |
| Carrier Form: | xiv, 238 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| ISBN: |
9781476710839 : 147671083X |
| Index Number: | F735 |
| CLC: | K837.126.3 |
| Call Number: | K837.126.3/A565 |
| Contents: | Part I. On the Sun -- Eastbound to the West -- The lie of the land -- Rolling rocks -- The line -- The work -- Part II. The work -- Badluck -- Calluses -- Under the postcard sky -- Bones -- Part III. Bones -- Predators -- Leaving the road behind -- How it started -- The brush gun -- The silence that followed -- The long months -- Part IV. The long months -- What remains -- A hard wind -- Drifts -- Moving on -- Epilogue. |