Montana; The Magazine of Western History, October 1st, 2006
High Country A NOVEL Willard Wyman University of Oklahoma Press, Lincoln, 3005.362 pp. $24.95 paper.
Willard groan's novel, High Country (winner of the 2006 Western Writers of America awards for Best Novel of the West and Best First Novel) is the story of a wilderness mule packer named Ty Hardin and the ensemble of cohorts (two legged and four) who accompany him. The narrative begins with his apprenticeship at age fifteen to a legendary backcountry guide, Fenton Padre, and ends forty-five years later with his death on the Trail Crest of Mount Whitney trying to save the life of a drug-addled b...
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