The Teton Angel Blog
The writing life, the real country of the novel, and the ranch roots that shaped it.
Before the final cover, Roland painted one himself. Here is that canvas, and what every symbol on the finished cover means.
Conrad, his four sons, Roy Polson, Miss Leah and the rest of the valley. Who is who, without giving anything away.

A ranch kid, a stack of handwritten paragraphs, a highway accident, and the stubborn kind of hope that finishes what it starts.

From a St. Anthony gas station to the Rawlins rodeo chutes, the real places behind the novel and how to see them yourself.