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Holding fire, a reckoning with the American West, Bryce Andrews

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Holding fire, a reckoning with the American West, Bryce Andrews

Language

eng

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autobiography

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illustrations

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no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Holding fire

Oclc number

1317311131

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Bryce Andrews

Sub title

a reckoning with the American West

Summary

"From the award-winning author of "Down from the Mountain," a personal reckoning with inheritance, history, and one gun's role in the violence that shaped the American West--and a transformative, healing call to grow a better tomorrow. 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 grandfather's Smith & Wesson revolver, he felt the weight of the violence braided into his chosen life. Other white men who'd 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 "won." 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." --, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Double exposure -- How it came to me -- Loving rifles -- Killing deer -- Beasts of burden -- The year I didn't hunt -- Making rounds -- Hammer and tongs -- Walking in the woods -- The New Agrarian School -- A refining fire -- The wild spring -- Shade

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Reckoning with the American West

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