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Badluck Way: A Year on the Ragged Edge of the West
Badluck Way A Year on the Ragged Edge of the West Author:Bryce Andrews In this "poetically rendered" (Oregonian) memoir of a young man, a wolf, and their parallel lives and ultimate collision, Bryce Andrews offers "a taut depiction of ranch life" (Seattle Times) in remote southwest Montana. Surrounded by mountain ranges and steep creeks with portentous names like Grizzly and Ba... more »d Luck, the Sun Ranch's twenty thousand acres hold giant herds of cattle and elk amid many predators. 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 start killing the ranch's cattle, Andrews has to shoulder a rifle, chase the pack, and do what he'd hoped he never would.
Badluck Way is a haunting memoir about transformation and complications, about living with dirty hands every day and making the hard choices that wake us at night and take a lifetime to reconcile. Above all, it is a celebration of the breathtaking wilderness and the satisfaction of hard work on some of the harshest, most beautiful land in the world.« less