On the Big Blackfoot

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A nice companion to his other work.......2003-04-05

"On the Big Blackfoot" is a series of readings and narratives by Norman Maclean and his son, John, plus an interview with Norman Maclean that I found to be the most interesting part of the recording. The focus of the discussions is quite naturally "A River Runs Through It," but they do go a bit beyond it. If you are a fan of any of Maclean's work, then hearing his voice is a treat.

Norman MacLean Collection: River Runs Through It, Young Men, Big Blackfoot

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Norman MacLean Collection: River Runs Through It, Young Men, Big Blackfoot
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ASIN: 1565114434
Release Date: 2001-03-29

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From its first magnificent sentence, "In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing", to the last, "I am haunted by waters", A River Runs Through It is an American classic.

Based on Norman Maclean's childhood experiences, the title novella has established itself as one of the most moving stories of our time; it captivates readers with vivid descriptions of life along Montana's Big Blackfoot River and its near magical blend of fly fishing with the troubling affections of the heart.

The paperback edition is now available with an evocative new cover by acclaimed Montana painter Russell Chatham.

"A masterpiece. . . . This is more than stunning fiction: It is a lyric record of a time and a life, shining with Maclean's special gift for calling the reader's attention to arts of all kinds—the arts that work in nature, in personality, in social intercourse, in fly-fishing."—Kenneth M. Pierce, Village Voice

Norman Maclean (1902-90), woodsman, scholar, teacher, and storyteller, grew up in the Western Rocky Mountains of Montana and worked for many years in logging camps and for the United States Forestry Service before beginning his academic career. He retired from the University of Chicago in 1973.

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Poetry in motion.......2007-08-05

This is one of the best books I've ever read. It's been a while since I read it, but saw it the other day on my book shelf and just wished I could read it again fresh and brand new for the first time. It has joy, it has heartache. It has love, hate and the cruelty of the world all wrapped wonderfully around the beauty of nature and the awe of God's creation. Passages in this book can move you to tears in both a sad and joyous way. The ending pages are almost like a religious experience. It's hard to find someone in this day and age that can put words together like Norman Maclean did. The book is very poetic. I happen to love fishing, but it doesn't matter if you've ever fished in your life. This book is one you won't ever forget.

grief.......2007-07-25

I love fly fishing. I love Montana. I love rivers. So how could I not like this book? I remember some years ago discussing the novella with a friend, and he said he thought it was too simplistic. I suppose what he was really saying was that it was too sentimental, that it was trying too hard to be poetic, or that it simplified itself into silence to pull at your heartstrings. I see his criticism, but to this day I still don't agree.

I'm a sentimental person who is also a cynic -- so I may shed a tear or two, but I hate it when I do -- especially when I feel at all manipulated. But the final page of this novel always makes me grieve in a way that makes me feel expansively human, and not at all self-conscious.

I wonder how many people who don't share my interests are moved in the same way as I am by this story?

Perfect.......2007-06-22

Like Mr. Maclean, I spent a great deal of time, whole summers, in the American West fishing and hiking with my father. This book is the fullest expression yet of the kind of respect and love that can grow between a father and son from the accumulation of small moments of instruction and the act of meditating on those moments for years. This book, as a reflection on nature, and the nature of man and memory and how the two can become intertwined, is simply perfect.

River Runs Through It.......2007-05-26

This is one of the finest books i have ever read. I have never been into fishing of any sort, but Maclean's wonderful sensory detail brings Montana to life in a way that everyone can appreciate. The ending was shocking and powerful, something i will never forget.

a reader.......2007-05-19

if you like to read and like good stories, you wont be disappointed in this book.

no hype is too much for the way mclean writes. he put his story into words when he was in his seventies, and he knows how to reflect and correspond his memories to us his reader, as though we're all old friends.

i can't say anything more about this story or his writings other than:

they're beautiful.

Indian Fall: The Last Great Days of the Plains Cree and the Blackfoot Confederacy

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Indian Fall: The Last Great Days of the Plains Cree and the Blackfoot Confederacy
D'Arcy Jenish
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One Round River: The Curse of Gold and the Fight for the Big Blackfoot

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One Round River: The Curse of Gold and the Fight for the Big Blackfoot
Richard Manning
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The quest for gold has ravaged countless landscapes around the world, and miniature gold rushes are now exacting a high ecological toll in places such as the Amazon and far eastern Siberia. Richard Manning, an environmental journalist, covers different ground in One Round River, a case study of a gold consortium's campaign to open a mine on the Big Blackfoot River of Montana. Such a mine, he writes, would effectively destroy the river for the short-term gain of just a few people. His argument is cogent and convincing; One Round River is a fine case study of the struggle to preserve wild places.

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I've given this book to all of my family.......1998-12-03

Richard Manning has made me think of my home land in a new way. One Round River should be required reading for those of us who live or want to live in the West, as well as for everyone who uses the fruit of the West - lumber, beef, and especially gold. The message in this book is so important and so well written that I have made my family and friends read it too!

A voice for the New West built on the reality of the past........1998-06-17

Richard Manning understands the people, and the places, he speaks of in his sharp discussion about mining and its effects on the new (and old) Montana. Were we truly to learn from the past so ably told in One Round River, modern gold mining practice would be outlawed. Would that this could be true... A more honest connection with the Montana landscape, and the lives its people (of all types) will be hard to find. Buy the book. If anything because it's a good read.

This book is awesome !.......1998-03-07

Few of us experience life as passionately as Richard Manning: a writer, hiker, fisherman, and nature lover...with an ability to put it all into words. He is our modern day Norman McLean...and I enjoyed 'One Round River' immensely. I can not recommend a book more highly...a 10+++.

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Big Butte stage station pioneers and those of other sites on the Blackfoot, Bonanza, Challis, and Wood River Stage Co. routes

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Cultural resource inventory and assessment for the Big Blackfoot Mine and Mill (24LC828) and the Lincoln Arrastra (24LC1274)

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The effect of copper on algae of the Big Blackfoot River

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One Round River. The Curse Of Gold And The Fight For The Big Blackfoot
RICHARD MANNING
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Joseph H. Roe
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In the fall of 1948, Ernest Hemingway made his first extended visit to Italy in thirty years. His reacquaintance with Venice, a city he loved, provided the inspiration for Across the River and into the Trees, the story of Richard Cantwell, a war-ravaged American colonel stationed in Italy at the close of the Second World War, and his love for a young Italian countess. A poignant, bittersweet homage to love that overpowers reason, to the resilience of the human spirit, and to the worldweary beauty and majesty of Venice, Across the River and into the Trees stands as Hemingway's statement of defiance in response to the great dehumanizing atrocities of the Second World War. Hemingway's last full-length novel published in his lifetime, it moved John O'Hara in The New York Times Book Review to call him "the most important author since Shakespeare."

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An occasionally beautiful mess.......2006-11-27

Across the River and Into the Trees is definitely Hemingway at his weakest. But the thing is that even the weakest Hemingway is much better than what most mediocre writers produce in their entire lives. What we have here is a short plotless novel about an old army Colonel and his young mistress spending a romantic weekend in Venice. There is nothing inherently wrong with this set up: Venice is a beautiful city, and Hemingway describes it well; the relationship is unconventional, but believable (I recall that Hemingway had a very similar love affair at some point in his life); and last, the lack of plot is nothing new-- The Sun Also Rises was a brilliant bit of meandering. The reason why the novel is a failure is that the relationship between Renata and Col. Cantwell is dull, trite, and meaningless. The entire 280 pages is full of inane lines like "oh, don't talk so rough" and "you are my one and only love." The vast majority of these pages is taken up by conversations between the two lovers which is, unfortunately, the least interesting part of the novel. If Hemingway had spent more time exploring the Colonel's psyche and less time having him exchange trivialities, he might have pieced together a good book.

A perfect example of the ruined brilliance of this novel is on page 213 where the Colonel says "Every day is a new and fine illusion. But you can cut out everything phony about the illusion as though you would cut it with a straight-edge razor." Classic Hemingway. But then Renata follows up this great line by saying "Please never cut me," and he says "You are not cut-able." The profound insight of the conversation degenerates that quickly into mindless pillow talk.

In the end, this novel is definitely worth reading if you're a Hemingway completist, or even if you have any special affection for the city of Venice. I suspect too that former or current soldiers would especially relate to the Colonel's frustration and nostalgia after decades of harsh battle. But to someone new to Hemingway or someone looking for classic modernist literature, you're much better off reading The Sun Also Rises or even For Whom the Bell Tolls.

A STUNNING NARRATION OF THIS CLASSIC TALE.......2006-09-29

Surely one of Ernest Hemingway's most memorable novels, Across the River and Into the Trees, is the touching story of love that comes too late.

First released in 1950 the novel covers three days in the life of Cantwell, a retired Army officer. He is now 50-years-old and has returned to the place where he nearly lost his life during World War II. Cantwell is a bitter man, feeling that he was unfairly demoted after losing a major part of his brigade during a forest battle. He was actually following orders, and believes the Army simply needed someone to blame and chose him.

He spends his time in Venice dictating his memoirs, railing against top brass - Eisenhower, Patton, Montgomery. He also becomes involved in a love affair with a 19-year-old girl. This character is said to be based, at least in part, on a young girl Hemingway met when he visited Venice in 1948.

For those unfamiliar with the story, there'll be no spoilers here by revealing the ending. Suffice it to say it is both moving and memorable.

It's thrilling to hear voice performer Boyd Gaines read. The opening lines "They started two hours before daylight, and at first, it was not necessary to break the ice across the canal as other boats had gone on ahead." set the stage for a remarkable performance. Gaines is an experienced award-winning stage, film, and television performer, and he brings this wide range of experience to his audio narration resulting in a stunning rendition of this classic tale.

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Introspective tale of a dying man's last days - underated EH in my opinion.......2006-08-20

This story is set in Venice a few years after World War II, the main character is (former) US Army colonel Robert Cantwell. Col. Cantwell is a veteran of the European campaign and commanded an infantry regiment during the war, and is now dying of a heart condition. This story is the tale of his last few days. There are two main threads to this story. First, Col. Cantwell reflects on his life as a soldier, what he has seen, what he has done, and his regrets. He is somewhat angry and embittered, but is trying hard to put these emotions behind him. Second, this is a love story as Col. Cantwell has fallen in love with a young Venetian girl. He is experiencing true love probably for the first time in his life. He was married once previously, although that relationship ended poorly.

This is an introspective tale, and there is very little `action' in this story (I would say virtually none). It is really a character study of a man who has seen more than most men should, who is undergoing a great transformation through the love of the young woman Renata, but who ultimately realizes that he and his relationship are doomed by his age and failing health. I loved this story and thought it was one of the top novels written by EH, although judging from some of the other reviews, there are clearly many that felt otherwise. This is not, generally, considered to be one of EH's best works. This book is also an homage to Venice (I would love to have the means to lounge around the city as Cantwell and Renata do in this novel!), and it is a vehicle for EH to comment on the European War and some of the principal actors.

I found this to be a wonderfully engaging tale, better than some of the nominal EH classics. EH has wonderfully captured the emotions and regrets of Col. Cantwell. My enthusiastic opinion is not uniformly shared, however, and this book should be approached with caution. I think the reason that this novel is not generally loved is that there is virtually no `action'. This is an introspective story from start to finish. If you are new to EH and looking to read your first novel, you should not start here.

Maddening.......2006-07-23

This novel encapsulates all the frustrations of late Hemingway. It begins well, but lapses rapidly into sollipsism and self-parody. Just when the reader has his arm cocked to hurl it across the room, the novel improves; and just when the reader leans forward, savoring the Hemingway prose and waiting for what happens next, it goes bad again.
Like The Garden of Eden and Islands in the Stream, Across the River and Into the Trees contains wonderful elements that are worthy of the best Hemingway but it is marred by a central flaw: There seems to be no compelling reason for the book to exist other than to update Hemingway's personal mythology.
Hemingway's early work was powered by several powerful elements: the author's willingness to face hard realities unflinchingly and without romanticism; and an ability to frame his characters' situations so that they took on the force of universal metaphors.
Alas, in this novel, flashes of the old brilliance can't overcome the main character's self-absorption and his creator's wishful thinking.
And yet . . . and yet . . . after I finished rereading Across the River and Into the Trees, I went to a bookstore and found that all the books I examined looked slight by comparison.
And the next day I found my emotions were very close to the surface, proof, I think, that Hemingway's power to move his readers and embed archetypal themes in his narratives persisted despite his decay.
Very strange.

Self-Indulgence.......2006-01-25

I think Hemingway wanted to do two things: (1) critique certain aspects of how WWII was fought (particularly the politicalization of battle plans); and (2) pay homage to his beloved Venice. To do so, he crafted a fairly thin story about an old soldier who finds himself in one last love with a girl a fraction of his age. The plot (to the extent there is one) and the relationship between the characters would probably make a nice short story. The bulk of the book is taken up by tourist writing about Venice (locales, architecture, food, markets, layout, and, of course, the canals) and a journalist's rants about US generals in WWII. Diehard Hemingway fans will find some jewels worth the read; others should stay away.

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Across the River and into the Trees
Ernest Hemingway
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For whom the bell tolls: [and], The snows of Kilimanjaro ; [and], Fiesta ; [and], The short happy life of Francis Macomber ; [and], Across the river and into the trees ; [and], The old man and the sea

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Francis Macomber: Americans beware
wonderful, one of the best books I have ever read.

For whom the bell tolls: [and], The snows of Kilimanjaro ; [and], Fiesta ; [and], The short happy life of Francis Macomber ; [and], Across the river and into the trees ; [and], The old man and the sea
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Francis Macomber: Americans beware.......1999-10-22

With the encouraging success of the recent box-office smash, American Beauty, I believe props need to be given to whom their due: Ernest Hemingway. No, he was not involved in the actual movie, but I could not help but notice the similarities between the movie and the "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber," which also happens to be my favorite Hemingway short. Americans feel alone and without control of their own lives in the late 20th century, and as Hemingway proves in this strong story, Americans have been feeling this way for a long time. Short and to the point, "Macomber" delivers a one-two punch that cannot be forgotten. Get up and take control of your own life; just make sure you're aware of what you're entering the bush in chase of.

wonderful, one of the best books I have ever read........1999-02-19

I loved the book and the movie. It just reminded me of Key West, which I love, and it gave me a comforting and happy feeling all the way through. It is incredible the way the old man never gives up with his courage to fight the big fish. The ending was perfect when he finds security in his hut and with the little boy. He sure deserved it.

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Across the River and Into the Trees
Ernest Hemingway
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Across the River and Into the Trees
Ernest Hemingway
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Across The River & Into The Trees

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Across the River & Into The Trees
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Ernest Hemingway
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Across the River & Into the Trees(Complete Works of Ernest Hemingway)

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Across the River & Into the Trees(Complete Works of Ernest Hemingway)

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