English Creek: Montana Trilogy #1 of 3 [B0625]

1985 PB with minor cover wear. The inaugural book in Ivan Doig's highly acclaimed, much-beloved Montana Trilogy. Ivan Doig creates a rich and varied tapestry of northern Montana and of our country at that still innocent time before the Second World War. It is the summer of 1939, and teenager Jick McCaskill is anticipating the usual activities of summer: the annual sheep count, the Fourth of July picnic, the excitement and danger of the rodeo. But when his brother decides to forgo college for the life of a cowhand, a painful rift in the family leads Jick to discover his own connection to the land, to history, and to family - to discover, in fact, who he is.

From recent Amazon/GoodReads reviews: "Anecdotal, humorous, and nostalgically sentimental. Good clean fun."; "An excellent book, sent in 1939 Montana ranching country. Ivan Doig is so fundamentally a Montanan that this novel oozes Big Sky Country. It is incredibly well researched and written with as big a heart as the Big Sky Country that serves as its backdrop."