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(More customer reviews)This book stars one of the last of the real cowboys, who lived on the cusp between the old West and our world of today. How could he know, as he herded cattle, broke broncos, befriended nomadic Indians and led pack trains into the Montana high country that his way of life was passing away forever? The author portrays nature and draws the panorama of Big Sky country with such skill you think you are there, discovering hidden wild berries, fording rivers of broken ice, and feeling the spring wind against your face. The finely drawn characters could only exist in this mountain-man world where the object was survival, and they wouldn't have it any other way. The twist ending reaches around and tugs your heart strings with compassion for this hero of the real Old West. Anyone who enjoys authentic stories of real "cowboys and Indians" would love this book!
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Time has not dimmed my memories of our ranch on Petty Creek, and it seems necessaryto recount tales of living there. I don't know why, except that the country slides intofocus as a place out of time, and worthy of mention in a foreign world that developedaround it. So begins the introduction to A Place In Time, thestory of a man's journey from an unrestrained youth as he hunted and survived in thenatural, rugged mountain world of the Indian, to his desperate attempt to hold onto thatlife as the world changed around him. His mountain environmentwas filled with colorful characters, each of them contributors to a kaleidoscope ofintrigue, humor, and adventure, both on the ranch and in surrounding areas. A reciprocal dependence of men and animals is vividly portrayedthrough the horses who trailed the mountain world with him, some of them previously nottouched by man. Some accounts of animal companions end tragically in their vigorousexistence; all of them touch sympathies of those who harbor an appreciation of thenatural world. The story's owner is older now, but very muchalive. The account of his life and location, however, are distant in the experience ofmost in today's world. His life surpasses the boundaries of his own region, bringing thereader to confront in the end, the painful changes that have been inflicted upon hiswilderness world. A Place In Time is a vibrant account of the waymany would like it to be again, the way most never knew it was.--This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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