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Atria Books
January 2014
On Sale: January 7, 2014
Featuring: Bryce Andrews
171 pages
ISBN: 1476760268
EAN: 9781476760261
Kindle: B00BSBR2Q0
Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction Memoir
“Mine might have been a simple, pretty story, if not for the
wolves. In late July, they emerged from the foothills . . .” 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 Sun’s twenty thousand acres of
rangeland occupy a still-wild corner of southwest Montana—a
high valley surrounded by mountain ranges and steep creeks
with portentous names like Grizzly, Dead Man, and Bad Luck.
Just over the border from Yellowstone National Park, the Sun
holds giant herds of cattle and elk amid many predators—
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 ranch’s
cattle, Andrews has to shoulder a rifle, chase the pack, and
do what he’d hoped he would never have to do. 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. Called “an important meditation on what it means
to share space and breathe the same air as truly wild
animals” (Tom Groneberg, author of The Secret Life of
Cowboys), Badluck Way is the memorable story of one young
man’s rebirth in the crucible of the West’s timeless
landscape, a place at the center of the heart’s geography,
savage and gorgeous in equal measure.
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