052 - Bryce Andrews - Holding Fire: A Reckoning with the American West

A conversation with Bryce Andrews about their book, Holding Fire: A Reckoning with the American West (Mariner Books, Harper Collins imprint, 2023).   Bryce Andrews is an award-winning author originally from Seattle but who has spent the majority of his adult life as a rancher and farmer in western Montana. His first book, Badluck Way: A Year on the Ragged Edge of the West (Atria Books, Simon & Schuster imprint, 2014) won the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award, the Reading the West Book Award for nonfiction, and the High Plains Book Award for both nonfiction and debut book. His second book, Down from the Mountain: The Life and Death of a Grizzly Bear (Mariner Books, Harper Collins imprint, 2020) won the Banff Mountain Book Competition, and was a Montana Book Award honor Title and the Amazon Best Science title of 2019. Andrews' new book is Holding Fire: A Reckoning with the American West (Mariner Books, Harper Collins imprint, 2023). Learn more about Andrews at his website https://www.bryceandrews.com. ----more----  Podcast Notes: Host and Producer Brenden W. Rensink is Associate Director of the Redd Center, an Associate Professor of History at BYU, General Editor of the Intermountain Histories project, and author of the 2018 book Native but Foreign: Indigenous Immigrants and Refugees in the North American Borderlands. Links to other publications and projects here: https://linktr.ee/bwrensink Support provided by the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies at Brigham Young University. Podcast Music was written and recorded by local Provo composer by Micah Dahl Anderson.