"Not long after I walked through the open door of Thomas McGuane's Montana farmhouse, his dog Cooper at my heels, he ushered me back out for a tour of the ranch and the trout-studded freestone stream that bisects it. It occurred to me to ask if I should be watching for rattlesnakes as we pushed through the brush in the sweltering heat."
"McGuane, an athletic 85, lives on 2,000 acres of rolling prairie in the Boulder River Valley, 75 miles east of Bozeman. Along the back roads that lead to his property, which is in the remote community of McLeod (one bar, one post office, population 162), quarter-mile-long irrigation systems sprayed huge, unattended agricultural fields. And everywhere, in every direction, cattle. In preparation for the trip, when I'd asked if there was an address to put in my GPS, I'd been rebuffed: "There's not.""
Thomas McGuane lives on 2,000 acres of rolling prairie in the Boulder River Valley, east of Bozeman, with a freestone stream abundant in trout. He navigates remote back roads through cattle country and large irrigation fields near the tiny community of McLeod. He sustained a rattlesnake bite that revealed hearing loss and led him to use a hearing aid. He holds membership in the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Fly Fishing Hall of Fame, and the National Cutting Horse Association Hall of Fame. His career includes numerous novels, story collections, and essays rooted in the sporting life.
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