Travers Corners : Classic Stories about Fly Fishing and a Small Montana Town

by Scott Waldie

• ISBN13: 9781592281541
• ISBN10: 1592281540
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2003-11-01
• Publisher: The Lyons Press

Summary

"This charming debut collection of stories. Waldie builds his tales around character, creating a small community of homespun folk who are quintessentially American and just a bit eccentric." --Publishers Weekly "This wonderful collection of Montana short stories made me want to drop everything and light out for Big Sky Country and never look back. TRAVERS CORNERS is a terrific debut by a gifted writer, who gets the contemporary American West just exactly right on every page." --Howard Frank Mosher "The book has a little of the feel ofThe Last Picture Show.Waldie also manages a paradox, demonstrating that the decent, more-or-less ordinary people in this pretty nice place live lives of consequence, knit one to another by community, history, affection, or animus. They matter." --Fly Rod &Reel "Visit TRAVERS CORNERS for a good read; it's a town full of people worth knowing." --EXPO Book Review,1998 "...a lovely, tongue-in-cheek look at make-believe small-town America." --Arizona Daily Star "Like the characters he writes about, Waldie's pace is slow and deliberate, and he demonstrates why the journey is the destination. He leads the way to a tiny corner of the world where we can refresh ourselves and still make it home for dinner. Travers Corner is just such a place." --Woodland Hills Daily News(LA--circulation 118,495) "A shrewd eye for rural characters, the book may remind some readers of Winesburg, Ohio,Lake Wobegon Days,orA River Runs Through It." --Billings, MT,Gazette "Scott Waldie has captured the essence of a small Montana town and the characters who 0live there. Written with warmth and wit, these stores will make you long for a second home like Travers Corners." --Montana Outdoors "Best of all, the warmth isn't sappy and the wit isn't just tinsel. Both are generated from a generous understanding of human nature." --Montanamagazine

Author Biography

SCOTT WALDIE, a river guide and fly-fishing outfitter for twenty years, lives in Sheridan, Montana. He is also the author of Return to Travers Corners. His work has appeared in Gray's Sporting Journal, Fly Rod & Reel, Fly Fisherman, and Sporting Classics.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vi
Prologue	p. vii
From the Diary of Traver C. Clark	p. 1
Travers Corners	p. 5
Word Gets Around	p. 13
Heaven Is a River	p. 29
Quintin	p. 49
Three Yahoos	p. 73
Pastime	p. 107
Travels	p. 117
D. Downey	p. 137
Afterword	p. 177
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