Last Year's River : A Novel

Set amid the exquisitely rendered landscape of the Rocky Mountains, LAST YEAR'S RIVER is the compelling story of the romance between a young New York debutante, sent off to Wyoming to bear a child, and a cowhand recently returned to the family ranch from the trenches of World War I. In graceful, spare prose, Allen Morris Jones reveals the thoughts of these two unlikely lovers, ultimately unfolding a love story as grand as the American West. With a rare eye for detail, Jones delivers a debut novel infused with an extraordinary sense of history, drama, and the West.

Allen Morris Jones has lived and worked in Montana most of his life. At age twenty-five, he became the editor of one of the West's most highly regarded periodicals, Big Sky Journal, where he published such writers as Annie Proulx, Jim Harrison, and Thomas McGuane. Jones recently resigned this post, after five years with the magazine, in order to devote his full energies to completing Last Year's River, his first novel. He is also the author of Hunting and Ethics in the Missouri River Breaks and the coeditor, with Jeff Wetmore, of Where We Live: The Best of Big Sky Journal. Jones is an avid fisher and hunter and frequently returns to his family ranch in the Missouri Breaks.