Book Reviews
Commonly compared with Paul Horgan and Wallace Stegner...Doig seems something else. A truer comparison might be with Robert Louis Stevenson because of Doig's magical welding of history into fiction, of adventure with everyday life, of legend with lore.
Washington Post
Here is the real Montana, the real West, through the eyes of a real writer.
Wallace Stegner
Sheer magic...simply a national treasure.
USA Today
The summer of his 14th year brings challenges and changes to Jick McCaskill and his family, in this book which echoes with the pioneering and human spirit.... Jick's older brother decides not to attend college, becoming a cowboy instead; a fire in Two Medicine National Forest threatens to destroy the community; and, by summer's end, Jick has learned the secret his father and an old campjack have kept from the rest of the community.
Publishers Weekly