{"product_id":"fifty-six-counties-9780996156028","title":"Fifty-Six Counties","description":"Montana has a long and celebrated tradition of artful, reflective nonfiction. From Joseph Kinsey Howard's \u003ci\u003eMontana: High, Wide, and Handsome\u003c\/i\u003e to K. Ross Toole's \u003ci\u003eMontana: An Uncommon Land\u003c\/i\u003e, we've been gifted with a series of erudite and sharp-eyed guides to help show us who we are. To this eminent list we can now add Russell Rowland's \u003ci\u003eFifty-Six Counties: A Montana Journey\u003c\/i\u003e. A native Montanan and an applauded novelist (\u003ci\u003eIn Open Spaces\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHigh and Inside\u003c\/i\u003e), Rowland spent the better part of a year studying and traveling around his beloved home state, from the mines of Butte to the pine forests of the Northwest, from the stark, wind-scrubbed badlands of the East to the tourist-driven economies of the West. Along the way, he considered our state's essential character, where we came from, and, most of all, what we might be in the process of becoming.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRowland, Russell:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Russell Rowland is the highly-applauded author of three novels set in Montana, including \u003ci\u003eHigh and Inside\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as co-editor of an anthology, \u003ci\u003eWest of 98: Living and Writing the New American West\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in Billings, Montana.","brand":"Bangtail Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50621936992530,"sku":"9780996156028","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f4515124-836d-4d0f-8b06-a4bf2ed74c86.jpg?v=1732585880","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/fifty-six-counties-9780996156028","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}