Montana 1948 (Watson)

Book Reviews 
This story is as fresh and clear as the trout stream fished by its narrator, David Hayden, growing up near the Montana-Canada border.... As universal in its themes as it is original in its particularities, Montana 1948 is a significant and elegant addition to the fiction of the American West, and to contemporary American fiction in general.
Howard Frank Mosher - Washington Post Book World


One of the top 100 novels of the West.
San Francisco Chronicle


Watson' prose is as clean, vivid and uncluttered as the Montana sky. Much like Larry McMurtry and Norman Maclean, Watson takes aim at the great myths of the American West in this page turner.
Book Magazine


Meditative, rich, and written close to the bone, Montana 1948 is a beautiful novel about the meaning of place and evolution of courage. It is a wonderful book.
Louise Erdrich

(Starred review.) Watson indelibly portrays the moral dilemma of a family torn between justics and loyalty; by implication, he also illuminates some dark corners of our national history.
Publishers Weekly


A quiet, almost meditative reflection on the hopelessly complex issue of doing the right thing.
Booklist


A literary page-turner, morally complex and satisfying.
Kirkus Review