Travers Corners: The Final Chapters; Stories

by Scott Waldie

• ISBN13: 9781592285747
• ISBN10: 1592285740
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 2005-03-01
• Publisher: Lyons Press

Summary

Travers Corners, Montana, is not much more than Main Street. There's Ed's Garage and Filling Station; McCracken's General Store - still owned and run by Junior, the worst fisherman who ever lived to fish; the Tin Cup Bar and Cafe; Dolores's Beauty Parlor; and The Carrie Creek Boat Works and Guide Service - Judson C. Clark proprietor. And yet, Travers Corners is also much more: it's an outpost for all things wild and beautiful - rivers and creeks, wildlife, cattle ranches, glaciated benchlands sweeping into the timbered mountains. It is a fly-fishing paradise. The simplicity of the rural West beckons from every tale: wisdom, trust, and good deeds, the loyalty of friends, the love of wild places, a respect for all living things - written with a wit that puts it all in perspective. The world would be a better place if we had all spent a spell in Travers Corners.

Author Biography

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

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	xi
Introduction	1	(6)
PBS, the Pentagon, and Neal's Spring Creek	7	(36)
Spoil the Rod and Spare the Child	43	(22)
A Day Given to Luck	65	(24)
Float Trip the Light Fantastic or Where the Judson Meets the Hudson	89	(18)
Rose's Ragtop	107	(18)
Ya Git What Ya Need	125	(24)
Felicity	149	(24)
THERE	173	(38)
Unbelievable	211	(56)
Afterword	267	(4)
About the Author	271