{"product_id":"the-rancher-william-mann-9798995804703","title":"The Rancher","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the autumn of 1881, Elias Harlan rides into Blackfeet country with one good horse and a bill of sale for land that has belonged to other people for ten thousand years. Two winters later, the buffalo are gone and the people who depended on them are starving in their lodges.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBetween those two moments lies a country breaking. Elias learns the work of the high plains-the spring calving, the winter grass, the arithmetic of a herd that survives or doesn't. He takes a grulla mare from a Lakota man at Fort Buford and calls her \u003cem\u003eBiter\u003c\/em\u003e. He watches the Blackfeet of the agency die that winter at a rate of two and three a day, and learns that watching is also a kind of choice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTold in the spare, unsparing prose of American literary realism, \u003cem\u003eThe Rancher\u003c\/em\u003e is the story of a man who came west looking for a beginning and arrived in time for the end-and of the people whose ending it was.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eFor readers of Paulette Jiles, James Welch, Guy Vanderhaeghe, and Kent Haruf.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e William Mann\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798995804703\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Sassy Belle Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/18\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 346\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.88lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.77d","brand":"William Mann","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48852904313087,"sku":"9798995804703","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-rancher-william-mann-9798995804703","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}