Based on your expressed interests OP, I think you would really enjoy The Big Sky by A.B. Guthrie, Jr. In recommending one novel to anybody I always recommend The Count of Monte Cristo which I consider the greatest novel ever written. I also highly recommend anything written by Thomas Sowell if you are looking for non-fiction and informative.

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“Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans.”
John Steinbeck

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