After a lifetime spent writing and working on his family's cattle
ranch outside of Helena, Montana, Ralph Beer has gathered his best
magazine essays into one collection called "In These Hills," In
thirty-three essays he provides a moving and elegiac tribute to
lives now passed, an often humorous homage to the provincial, and
an attempt "to fathom the place where we live . . . to decipher who
we are," as he writes in his introduction. Beer, praised as one of
the finest writers in the West, offers an authentic literary voice
paired with a lifetime spent exploring a particularly beloved piece
of land. From his first experience with a wheat harvest, to the
winter rebuilding of a 1947 Dodge Power Wagon, to his moving
exploration of an old family mystery, these essays slice sharply
under the sod of our embedded romanticism, exploring not only the
brute hardships of a living made from cattle ranching but the
inextricable satisfaction of it as well. As Beer himself says in
the final pages of this collection, "Stories outshine instruments
of gold. Stories outlast stone."
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