High Country

A wrangler for some 40 years, Willard Wyman landed two Spur Awards for High Country as Best Novel of the West and Best First Novel. Little more than a boy, Ty Hardin is apprenticed to a legendary packer even as the Great Depression takes its toll on American families. 'The characters are so well drawn, and the authenticity of detail so finely wrought, you'd think they come from life. And you'd be right.'-True West