Ride with me, Mariah Montana

by Ivan Doig

Hardcover, 1990

Status

Available

Publication

New York : Atheneum, 1990.

Description

Jick, facing age and loss, his prized ranch beset by outside interests, is jumpstarted back into adventure by Mariah, a red-headed newspaper photographer.

User reviews

LibraryThing member kukulaj
This is a very sweet book. It doesn't have the gutsy depth of the previous books in the trilogy. The whole book is a kind of resolution of the tensions of the earlier books. Everything comes out for the best.

I just turned 65 and bought a camper to tool around the country in, so this book really
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resonated with me! I don't expect quite the level of adventure... but, well, maybe we'll have more adventure! Maybe it's the journalistic perspective that keeps everything in the book at a relatively safe distance.

Anyway it was fun to follow their travels on a map of Montana!
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LibraryThing member aliciamalia
The final installment of Doig's Montana trilogy, Ride with Me is a pale shadow of the previous two books. Stick with English Creek.
LibraryThing member BoundTogetherForGood
This was a fine ending to the Montana trilogy by Doig.

These feel similar to Lonesome Dove, but are not depressing the way that series was.
LibraryThing member m.belljackson
While the ongoing travel around Montana turns into a rather boring long saga and Jick's dialogue is not up to [Rascal Fair] or {English Creek],
there is still notable writing when Jick carries his Churchill speech along and the angry Buffalo delivers a well-deserved punch.

The Baloney Express was a
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true highlight!

Why there is no compassion for lamb and sheep slaughtering is never explained.

And why do Indians always get a pass on the extreme cruelty of the Buffalo over the cliff killing
of so many creatures just left to die.

I sure miss Lucas Barclay and Angus McCaskil!
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