Badluck Way: A Year On The Ragged Edge Of The West
- Author: Bryce Andrews
- Narrator: Pete Simonelli
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster
- Duration: 6:08:14
Synopsis
The gripping memoir of a young man, a wolf, their parallel lives and ultimate collision, Badluck Way is also an ode to the satisfaction of hard work on some of the wildest and most beautiful land in the world.
“Mine might have been a simple, pretty story, if not for the wolves. In late July, they emerged from the foothills . . .”
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. The Sun’s twenty thousand acres of rangeland occupy a still-wild corner of southwest Montana—a high valley surrounded by mountain ranges and steep creeks with portentous names like Grizzly, Dead Man, and Bad Luck. 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. But when wolves suddenly begin killing the ranch’s cattle, Andrews has to shoulder a rifle, chase the pack, and do what he’d hoped he would never have to do.
Badluck Way is about transformation and complications, about living with dirty hands every day. It is about the hard choices that wake us at night and take a lifetime to reconcile. Above all, Badluck Way celebrates the breathtaking beauty of wilderness and the satisfaction of hard work on some of the harshest, most beautiful land in the world. Called “an important meditation on what it means to share space and breathe the same air as truly wild animals” (Tom Groneberg, author of The Secret Life of Cowboys), Badluck Way is the memorable story of one young man’s rebirth in the crucible of the West’s timeless landscape, a place at the center of the heart’s geography, savage and gorgeous in equal measure.
Chapters
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BadLuckWay 01 Title
Duration: 36s -
BadLuckWay 02 Prologue
Duration: 07min -
BadLuckWay 03 Part1 OnTheSun EastboundToTheWest
Duration: 18min -
BadLuckWay 04 LieOfTheLand
Duration: 31min -
BadLuckWay 05 RollingRocks
Duration: 44min -
BadLuckWay 06 TheLine
Duration: 07min -
BadLuckWay 07 Part2 TheWork BadLuck
Duration: 29min -
BadLuckWay 08 Calluses
Duration: 23min -
BadLuckWay 09 UnderThePostcardSky
Duration: 31min -
BadLuckWay 10 Part3 Bones Predators
Duration: 34min -
BadLuckWay 11 LeavingTheRoadBehind
Duration: 27min -
BadLuckWay 12 HowItStarted
Duration: 18min -
BadLuckWay 13 TheBrushGun
Duration: 12min -
BadLuckWay 14 TheSilenceThatFollowed
Duration: 06min -
BadLuckWay 15 Part4 TheLongMonths WhatRemains
Duration: 12min -
BadLuckWay 16 AHardWind
Duration: 33min -
BadLuckWay 17 Drifts
Duration: 08min -
BadLuckWay 18 MovingOn
Duration: 13min -
BadLuckWay 19 Epilogue
Duration: 04min -
BadLuckWay 20 Credits
Duration: 55s