High Country

Willard Wyman's great novel of the high country of Montana won a Spur Award and great respect from reviewers. It opens between the world wars, and closes mid-century, and follows a troubled young man, Ty Hardin, who looks for healing in the mysterious mountain ranges of northern Montana. He becomes......more

Not a lot of plot, more day-to-day living, like a journal (but not a journal). High Country is a fictional biography, which begins with a teenage Montana boy, and follows him through the rest of his life. He was a packer, mostly in Montana (e.g., the Bob Marshall Wilderness) and later in the Sierra......more