Where Rivers Change Direction
Mark Spragg
Riverhead Books
<p>It is a voice that echoes off canyon walls, springs from the rush of rivers, thunders from the hooves of horses. It belongs to award-winner&nbsp;Mark Spragg&nbsp;, and it's as passionate and umcompromising as the wilderness in northwest Wyoming&nbsp;in which he was born: the largest block of unfenced wilderness in the lower forty-eight states.&nbsp;Where Rivers Change Direction&nbsp;is a memoir of childhood spent on the oldest dude ranch in Wyoming—with a family struggling against the elements and against themselves, and with the wry and wise cowboy who taught him life's most important lessons.</p><p>As the young Spragg undergoes the inexorable rites of passage that forge the heart and soul of man, he channels&nbsp;Peter Matthiessen and the novels of Ernest Hemingway in his truly unforgettable illuminations of the heartfelt yearnings, the unexpected wisdom, and the irrevocable truths that follow in his wake.</p>