The Legend of Colton H Bryant - Softcover

Fuller, Alexandra

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1847373542 ISBN 13: 9781847373540

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd, 2008

Synopsis

Colton H Bryant grew up in Wyoming and never once wanted to leave it. Wyoming - wild, open and heartsearingly beautiful - loved him and he loved it back. Two things helped Colton get through school and the neighbourhood gang who chased after him on his bike yelling 'retard': his best friend Jake and his favourite mantra 'Mind over matter' - which meant to him - if you don't mind, it doesn't matter. Colton and Jake grew up wanting nothing more than the freedom to sleep under the great Wyoming night sky and to be just like Jake's dad, Bill, a strong, gentle man of few words who rode rodeo like nobody's business. Colton started work as a driller on a rig, despite his young wife begging him to quit. But Colton's dad worked on the rig and his dad before him and Colton claimed it was in his blood. Colton died young and he died on the rig - falling to his death because the oil company neglected to spend $2,000 on safety rails. His family received no compensation. The strong, sad story of Colton H Bryant's life could not be told without the telling of the land that grew him, where there are still such things as cowboys roaming the plains, where it is relationships that get you through and where a simple, soulful and just man named Colton H Bryant lived and died.

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Review

a [Fulleras] bookaset in her new home, the high plains of Wyomingahangs so faultlessly on its high-altitude, big-sky, oildrilling bones that it seems not so much to have been written as uncovered by the wind and weather of the American north-west.a
a"The Economist"

" [Fuller''s] book-set in her new home, the high plains of Wyoming-hangs so faultlessly on its high-altitude, big-sky, oildrilling bones that it seems not so much to have been written as uncovered by the wind and weather of the American north-west."
-"The Economist"
" [Fuller's] book-set in her new home, the high plains of Wyoming-hangs so faultlessly on its high-altitude, big-sky, oildrilling bones that it seems not so much to have been written as uncovered by the wind and weather of the American north-west."
-The Economist

About the Author

Alexandra Fuller was born in England in 1969 and in 1972 she moved with her family to a farm in Rhodesia. After the civil war there in 1981, the Fullers moved first to Malawi, then to Zambia. She now lives in Wyoming and has three children.

About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1847373542
• ISBN 13: 9781847373540
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256