Joe Pickett Books In Order (Full List)

"Like most men, he had a tough time believing that his wife had had any kind of interesting life before she met him. Which was ridiculous on its face."

"Children were not pets, not furniture, not items put on earth to bring pleasure to people who owned them, she raged to herself."

"I never thought I’d care a good goddamn about a little Brit orphan, but..."

"Before going outside to his pickup for his gun, the Wyoming game warden cooked and ate four and a half pounds of meat."

"Hide in plain sight, that was the way out here. He would learn something from that."

"Yellowstone, a place so special and awe-inspiring that after exploring it in 1871, the Hayden Expedition conceived of the original concept of the world’s first national park - a set-aside of 2.2 million acres containing more than ten thousand thermal features, canyons, waterfalls, and wildlife - so no man or corporation could ever own it."

"We were once a nation of hunters. And not the effete, European-style hunters who did it for sport. We hunted for our food, our independence. It’s what made us who we are. But, like so many other virtues that made us unique, we have, as a society, forgotten where we came from and how we got here. What was once both noble and essential has become perverted and indefensible."

"Do you think that the day you stop listening to new music is the day you decide you’re on the path to old age? Like you’ve given up on new stuff and you resign yourself to music you’ve already heard? Like you’re through discovering and all you want to do is rummage through your old things?"

"The only conspiracy that exists is the conspiracy of incompetence."

"Nothing spells trouble like two drunk cowboys with a rocket launcher."

"River cottonwoods were so drunk with color the leaves hurt his eyes."

"There's nothing worse on this earth than privileged bureaucratic assholes who work the system. They never get caught, and if they do, there are no real consequences."

"Black, yellow, brown, and white diversity is what makes the world seem right diversity, dee-verse-i-teeeeee."

"Even the worst scenes could be improved by a layer of white snow."

"Mom thought all differences melted away and that anyone could be pleasant company once they were on horseback."

"Missy was quick to assign blame for her mistakes not to herself but to whoever caused her to lose control."

"Twilight in the mountains brought a special kind of cold. It crept out from the darkness of the lodgepole pine forest where it had spent the daylight hours and it slithered across the top of the snow to sting every inch of exposed human skin. Sounds became sharper and the snow itself became a different texture that squeaked like nails on a chalkboard with every footfall."

"A Wyoming vegetarian is someone who only eats meat once a day."

"Once, she’d dressed up as a French maid. Another time it was a candy striper. Both outfits had really revved him up."

"Hypothermia was curling back its lips and exposing its sharp teeth."

"Her hips were wide and they fit over the barstool like a hand gripping a tennis ball."

"Late March in the foothills of the Bighorn Mountains wasn't yet spring by any means, but there were a growing number of days when spring could be dreamt of."