Description: From the award-winning author of Down from the Mountain, a memoir of inheritance, history, and one gun’s role in the violence that shaped the American West—and an impassioned call to forge a new way forwardBryce Andrews was raised to do no harm. The son of a pacifist and conscientious objector, he moved from Seattle to Montana to tend livestock and the land as a cowboy. For a decade, he was happy. Yet, when Andrews inherited his grandfather’s Smith & Wesson revolver, he felt the weight of the violence braided into his chosen life. Other white men who’d come before him had turned firearms like this one against wildlife, wilderness, and the Indigenous peoples who had lived in these landscapes for millennia. This was how the West was “won.” Now, the losses were all around him and a weapon was in his hand.In precise, elegiac prose, Andrews chronicles his journey to forge a new path for himself, and to reshape one handgun into a tool for good work. As waves of gun violence swept the country and wildfires burned across his beloved valley, he began asking questions—of ranchers, his Native neighbors, his family, and a blacksmith who taught him to shape steel—in search of a new way to live with the land and with one another. In laying down his arms, he transformed an inherited weapon, his ranch, and the arc of his life.Holding Fire is a deeply felt memoir of one Western heart’s wild growth, and a personal testament to how things that seem permanent—inheritance, legacies of violence, forged steel—can change.100% AuthenticBrand new; unreadFirst EditionFirst PrintingHardcover Dust JacketPrinted in the USAComes from a smoke-free and pet-free homeThank you for looking! Price is firm. I do not accept offers nor give discounts.
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Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Original Language: English
Intended Audience: Adults
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Type: Novel
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Book Title: Holding Fire : a Reckoning with the American West
Item Length: 8.2in
Item Height: 0.9in
Item Width: 5.5in
Author: Bryce Andrews
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Topic: Personal Memoirs, United States / State & Local / West (Ak, CA, Co, Hi, Idaho, Mt, Nv, Ut, WY), Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), Violence in Society
Publisher: HarperCollins
Publication Year: 2023
Genre: Biography & Autobiography, History, Social Science
Item Weight: 12.5 Oz
Number of Pages: 272 Pages
