The Last Cowboys: A Pioneer Family in the New West Audiobook

Quotes

• “A beautiful book, threading deep reporting into a gorgeously written narrative. It is American portraiture at its best.”

  — Susan Orlean, New York Times bestselling author

• “Remarkable….It’s a story not just of rodeo but of the contemporary West…Branch avoids the sentimentalism that can seep into such a tale. He also does an impressive job of making the rodeo life come off the page.

  — New York Times Book Review

• “Compelling…The Last Cowboys is an excellent, compassionate book.”

  — Minneapolis StarTribune

• “What Branch focuses on so beautifully is how one remarkable American family navigates the situation of wanting to do dangerous, peculia,r and deeply impressive kinds of work.”

  — Los Angeles Times

• “An excellent, compassionate book.”

  — Minneapolis Star-Tribune

• “Avoid[s] country clichés and reveal[s] not only why rural Americans must adapt, but also the reasons they might want to.”

  — Outside magazine

• “A real-life story that’s not only compelling, but oddly reassuring.”

  — Los Angeles Review of Books

• “A tribute to the things that matter.”

  — Deseret News

• “The Last Cowboys isn’t just about winning saddle bronc titles…It’s about the Old West becoming new.”

  — Associated Press

• “Pulitzer-winning New York Times reporter Branch records in utterly enthralling detail the efforts of a multigenerational Utah ranching family, the Wrights, to survive a shifting American West.”

  — Booklist (starred review)

• “A dramatic and personal account of the Wright family and how they developed a second business in the modern rodeo circuit to support their family ranch at Smith Mesa. Recommended for understanding twenty-first-century American cowboy culture.”

  — Library Journal

• “Branch’s fly-on-the-wall reporting and evocative prose renders this a memorable tale of family and the American West in a state of flux.”

  — Publishers Weekly

• “Packed with fascinating information, lively writing, and a certain pleasant nostalgia.”

  — Kirkus Reviews

• “Branch has composed a wonderful ballad of intrepid Old West men bucking a modern world that’s going dry fast.”

  — Nicholas Dawidoff, author of The Fly Swatter