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"Solid, powerful, realistic writing makes for an exciting debut." -- Library Journal, August 5, 2005

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The packer's business is guiding mule trains into mountains where wagons can't travel. It's a life of danger, long days, and low pay. But for those wedded to the wilderness and inaccessible high country, it is the only life there is.

During the Great Depression, young Ty Hardin is sent from his family's failing Montana ranch to learn from the last of the great packers, Fenton Pardee, legendary in the Montana Rockies for his packing adventures across the Swan Range all the way to the Big Divide. High Country follows Ty through this apprenticeship and into World War II, where he watches trucks and jeeps replace the army's mules. Wounded and shipped home, Ty recovers by packing into the Montana mountains he loves. After his mentor dies, Ty leaves Montana for the Sierra Nevada--the highest country of all--where he becomes a legend in his own right.

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  • Hardcover: 362 pages
  • Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press; Second edition edition (September 30, 2005)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0806136979
  • ISBN-13: 978-0806136974
  • Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.2 x 1.3 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #914,376 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars High Country, October 19, 2005
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Settle in for a good read with this one. High Country is a hugely satisfying novel which leaves you feeling fortunate to have accompanied these memorable characters...both the two legged and four legged ones...on their adventures. Spanning fifty years in the lives of packers, this novel reminds you afresh just why you are a book lover. In addition to introducing you to the packer culture, High Country offers a very human tale about people you love getting to know. High Country has humor, suspense, romance, and descriptions of wilderness that few of us are lucky enough ever to see. Do not be surprised at the close of this story to be wondering..although you may never have even been on a horse, much less close to a mule ....if maybe, just maybe, there could be a pack trip in your future.
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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars a quiet strength, July 3, 2006
By David W. Straight (knoxville, tennessee United States) - See all my reviews
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It's been 50 years since I last went on a packing trip (in the
Wyoming Bighorns) and Wyman's novel brings back many pleasant
memories. This is not an "action" novel, nor is it dramatic in
the usual sense of that word. It is a novel about a man who
coexits with nature--a kind of mutual respect rather than a
battle. Introspection and inner strength are the key words here.
Ty Hardin has relationships with people to be sure, and these are
important to him, but it is his relationship to the mountains and
the wilderness which is the crucial point. There are dramatic
moments--a lot of them--but in the high mountains of Montana and
California these are natural and expected (e.g. you are going
to have bad weather fronts moving in).

The writing is moving and very satisfying, and come from the
heart of someone who has lived the life that Ty Hardin does.
Packing is an unusual subject for a novel, but suddenly we have
two at the same time--High Country and Brumfield's Across the
High Lonesome--and both are excellent reading.
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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent gift, December 10, 2005
By JoAn Chace (Atlanta, GA.) - See all my reviews
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If you are buying a book for a soldier this holiday season, choose High Country. Or, if you want to honor the courage and decency--and youth--of men who have
chosen to put themselves "in harm's way," buy this book for yourself. It is not a book about war, but about brave and good men. Few writers know for
themselves the life that makes some men quietly, quirkily, independently heroic. Bill Wyman does. High Country reflects the values of the western edge of this country: physical courage, modesty, self-discipline, and a love of the skills of the trade. Wyman knows the mountains, the high country of Montana and California, and he knows how to give life to such rugged places and the rare people who work among them. His central character, Ty Hardin, gifted with a special understanding of animals, learns the trade of a packer and comes of age in the mountains, He learns to read the country and to judge others truly, how to live intuitively, gracefully, and tenderly, with deep love and honorable self-sacrifice. Enriched by beautiful settings and lively and true dialogue, as well as memorable characters in Ty and his teachers and companions, this a novel to read and read again.
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At last out in paperback, this unusual novel finally gets a foothold. It's not a "Western" at all. There are no blazing guns, sheriffs, or bad guys. Read more
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4.0 out of 5 stars High Country
Great book, hard read, must find a place that has no noise, then you will get through, you will enjoy it. Sound like a prop from a college wrote it.
Over all I enjoyed it.
Published on April 10, 2007 by T. Smallwood

5.0 out of 5 stars High Praise and A Higher Recommendation
Read this. It will stay with you. And it will probably lead you to check internet sites for pack trips into the mountains of western Montana and the Sierras of California so... Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars High Country a winner
Great book if you love the mountains and enjoy escaping into a great story line with wonderful descriptions of the life of a packer in the mountains. Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars Now a Prize Winner
High Country has won The Western Writer's Association awards for Best Novel of 2005 and for Best First Novel as well. Read more
Published on March 10, 2006 by T. Moser

5.0 out of 5 stars Exacting prose and a genuine love for the back country
It takes two things to make a great Western novel: a true knowledge of the country and society you are writing about and a love of language. Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars what a surprise
I thought this would be a standard western genre work, but it turned out to be a thoughtful and moving elegy to love, memory and a fast disappearing America. Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars Packing In Where The Waters Begin
Eight years in the making, Bill Wyman's first novel has arrived. For anyone who loves horses, mules, romance, camping and the Mountain West, High Country has been well worth the... Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars High praise for HIGH COUNTRY
Though this novel reminded me at times of McMurtry's LONESOME DOVE or Norman MacLean's A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT, the book stands tall on its own, not unlike the mountains that... Read more
Published on October 13, 2005 by T. Haydon

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