Badluck Way: A Year on the Ragged Edge of the West
Written by Bryce Andrews
Narrated by Pete Simonelli
4.5/5
()
About this audiobook
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 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.
Called “an elegant memoir” by the Great Falls Tribune, 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.
Bryce Andrews
Bryce Andrews is the author of Down from the Mountain, which won the Banff Mountain Book Competition and was a Montana Book Award Honor Title and an Amazon Best Science Title of 2019. His first book was Badluck Way, which won the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award, the Reading the West Book Award for nonfiction, and the High Plains Book Award for both nonfiction and debut book. Andrews grew up in Seattle, Washington, and spent a decade working on ranches in the high valleys of Montana. He lives near Missoula with his family.
More audiobooks from Bryce Andrews
Down from the Mountain: The Life and Death of a Grizzly Bear Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Holding Fire: A Reckoning with the American West Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Related to Badluck Way
Related audiobooks
One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Thousand-Miler: Adventures Hiking the Ice Age Trail Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Wilderness; A Journal Of Quiet Adventure In Alaska Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Claiming Ground Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5River Horse: A Voyage Across America Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Travels in Alaska Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Crossing Open Ground Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Bliss(ters): How I walked from Mexico to Canada One Summer Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Miracle Country: A Memoir Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Longest Road: Overland in Search of America, from Key West to the Arctic Ocean Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Your Blue Is Not My Blue: A Missing Person Memoir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5English Creek Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5We Stood Upon Stars: Finding God in Lost Places Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Good Rain: Across Time and Terrain in the Pacific Northwest Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5About This Life: Journeys on the Threshold of Memory Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Tenth Island: Finding Joy, Beauty, and Unexpected Love in the Azores Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5That Wild Country: An Epic Journey through the Past, Present, and Future of America's Public Lands Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Only Kayak: A Journey Into The Heart Of Alaska Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRough Beauty: Forty Seasons of Mountain Living Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5It Happened Like This: A Life in Alaska Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Ordinary Wolves: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Fire on the Mountain Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Forty Years in the Wilderness: One woman's adventures and struggles Homesteading in the Alaskan wilderness Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Solitude: A Year Alone in the Patagonia Wilderness Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Wild Men, Wild Alaska: Finding What Lies Beyond the Limits Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Cache Lake Country: Or, Life in the North Woods Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Wild Awakening: How a Raging Grizzly Healed My Wounded Heart Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Curve of Time: The Classic Memoir Of A Woman And Her Children Who Explored The Coastal Waters Of The Pacific Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Indian Creek Chronicles: A Winter in the Bitterroot Wilderness Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Biography & Memoir For You
And Then There Were None Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Becoming Bulletproof: Protect Yourself, Read People, Influence Situations, and Live Fearlessly Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Twisted Love Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Series of Unfortunate Events #1 Multi-Voice, A: The Bad Beginning Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Divine Rivals: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Fairy Tale Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5If He Had Been with Me Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5When No One Is Watching: A Thriller Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Local Woman Missing Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5From Blood and Ash Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The House in the Cerulean Sea Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Paris Apartment: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Pet Sematary Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Year of Magical Thinking Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Child Called It: One Child's Courage to Survive Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Good Girls Don't Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Ivy League Counterfeiter Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Leave the World Behind: A Novel Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5See You on the Way Down: Catch You on the Way Back Up! Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Institute: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Bell Jar Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Ripe: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come: One Introvert's Year of Saying Yes Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Overstory Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5In Five Years: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Related categories
Reviews for Badluck Way
8 ratings0 reviews