Badluck Way: A Year on the Ragged Edge of the West
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| Rating | : | 4.46 (516 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1476710848 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-04-29 |
| Language | : | English |
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He studied at Whitman College and the University of Montana, and has managed several cattle ranches in the West. . He lives in Montana. Bryce Andrews was born and raised in Seattle, Washington
Eventually, Andrews must do the thing that frightens him most and confront them. In many ways, this story parallels Andrews’ own. From Booklist Just before leaving Seattle for a six-month stint as a ranch hand at Sun Ranch in southwestern Montana, Andrews scuffs his cowboy boots against a city sidewalk to make them look used. --Emily Roth . At times, the pace of the narrative lags, and the prose is poetic yet dense. Andrews frequently sidesteps into the perspective of the wolves themselves, heightening the drama by allowing the reader to follow their path. Andrews, however, paints the rural landscape with such precision that the land becomes its own character, and his story itself a finely tuned love song for the West. Although young a
NAM said Nothing bad about Badluck Way. Wolves and ranching will never co-exist. Despite government-overseen reintroduction, despite reimbursement for predation, wolves are hunters and cattle are easy prey. As soon as I read the blurb, I knew this memoir wouldn’t end without blood being spilled. Yet Bryce Andrews’ easy voice and excellent writing drew me, and I was uncontrollably along for the collision when predator and unintended pr. Nike said Exquisitly told tale of life's harder truths. Ranching vs wolves. While predictable in it's tragedy of the life and death struggle of Nature vs man's unnatural interjections of raising stock ultimately for killing, yet being outraged when another natural predator pulls up at the table is thoroughly fascinating. Humans are the only animal that destroys utterly any possible opponent in the circle of living. A story of Life, beauty and the inner conflicts. grumpydan said Badluck Way. Bryce Andrews leaves Seattle to work on a ranch in Montana. He learns how tough it really is to be a cowboy in this touching memoir.This is not a fast paced action filled story, but one that shows the tediousness and loneliness of being a ranch hand. We get to see first had how this young man lives each day on the ranch and enjoys nature. He tells about some of the ranch’s past; his dealing with stray
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. “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 crossed” (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. Called “an elegant memoir” by the Great Falls Tribune, Badluck Way is about transformation and complications, about living with dirty hands every day. The Sun’s twenty thousand acres of rangeland occupy a still-wild corner of southwest Montana—a high valle