Overview
āBeautifully observed. . . This jewel of a book belongs on the shelf with our best Western writersāNorman MacLean, Pam Houston, and Annie Proulx.āāJohn Vaillant, bestselling author ofĀ The TigerĀ andĀ The Golden Spruce
From the award-winning author ofĀ Down from the Mountain, a memoir of inheritance, history, and one gunās role in the violence that shaped the American Westāand an impassioned call to forge a new way forward
Bryce Andrews was raised to do no harm. The son of a pacifist and conscientious objector, he moved from Seattle to Montana to tend livestock and the land as a cowboy. For a decade, he was happy. Yet, when Andrews inherited his grandfatherās Smith & Wesson revolver, he felt the weight of the violence braided into his chosen life. Other white men whoād come before him had turned firearms like this one against wildlife, wilderness, and the Indigenous peoples who had lived in these landscapes for millennia. This was how the West was āwon.ā Now, the losses were all around him and a weapon was in his hand.
In precise, elegiac prose, Andrews chronicles his journey to forge a new path for himself, and to reshape one handgun into a tool for good work. As waves of gun violence swept the country and wildfires burned across his beloved valley, he began asking questionsāof ranchers, his Native neighbors, his family, and a blacksmith who taught him to shape steelāin search of a new way to live with the land and with one another. In laying down his arms, he transformed an inherited weapon, his ranch, and the arc of his life.
Holding FireĀ is a deeply felt memoir of one Western heartās wild growth, and a personal testament to how things that seem permanentāinheritance, legacies of violence, forged steelācan change.
This book title, Holding Fire (A Reckoning with the American West), ISBN: 9780063316515, by Bryce Andrews, published by HarperCollins (February 13, 2024) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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