Travers Corners: Classic Stories about Fly Fishing and a Small Montana Town
Travers Corners: Classic Stories about Fly Fishing and a Small Montana Town
“This wonderful collection of Montana short stories made me want to drop everything and light out for Big Sky Country and never look back. TRAVERS CORNERS is a terrific debut by a gifted writer, who gets the contemporary American West just exactly right on every page.”
–Howard Frank Mosher
“The book has a little of the feel of The Last Picture Show. Waldie also manages a paradox, demonstrating that the decent, more-or-less ordinary people in this pretty nice place live lives of consequence, knit one to another by community, history, affection, or animus. They matter.”
–Fly Rod &Reel
“Visit TRAVERS CORNERS for a good read; it’s a town full of people worth knowing.”
–EXPO Book Review, 1998
” a lovely, tongue-in-cheek look at make-believe small-town America.”
–Arizona Daily Star
“Like the characters he writes about, Waldie’s pace is slow and deliberate, and he demonstrates why the journey is the destination. He leads the way to a tiny corner of the world where we can refresh ourselves and still make it home for dinner. Travers Corner is just such a place.”
–Woodland Hills Daily News (LA–circulation 118,495)
“A shrewd eye for rural characters, the book may remind some readers of Winesburg, Ohio, Lake Wobegon Days, or A River Runs Through It.”
–Billings, MT, Gazette
“Scott Waldie has captured the essence of a small Montana town and the characters who 0live there. Written with warmth and wit, these stores will make you long for a second home like Travers Corners.”
–Montana Outdoors
“Best of all, the warmth isn’t sappy and the wit isn’t just tinsel. Both are generated from a generous understanding of human nature.”
–Montana magazine
Customer Review: Travers Corners The Final Chapters
This book is my favorite in a great series of books- The Travers Corners series. The characters walk off the pages. They are finely drawn, colorful, real, everyday people. The books help me keep a Montana State of Mind in my consciousness. The fishing, the tales, the warmth, the locale and the humor make this series an antidote to life in a large city. Just knowing that Travers Corners is there & I can pick up a book & experience it helps me enjoy the pleasures/pitfalls of life in L.A.
Keep the stories coming.
Customer Review: Cowboy Stories
Simply put, this is a book of short stories revolving around a make-believe small town in Montana. Through his short stories, the reader is taken past the “simple-life” surface and into the complex relationships of a close-nit community. If it weren’t for the mountains and trout streams described near the town of Travers Corners you could probably relate this book to any rural small town in America. The two main characters, Jud and Henry, are old friends and fishing guides. They remind me of some of the cowboys that I’ve met on a few pack trips in Yellowstone. Many of them are expert story tellers. The best thing about this book is Waldie’s ability to tell a story.
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