Endangered: The Ballad of Bitterroot Bob

by Alex Campbell

Overview

His world turned alien and treacherous, Bitterroot Bob seeks isolation at his family's homestead at the northwestern edge of America's arid Great Basin. The nation's duplicity also reactivated childhood nightmares where his contradicting sense perceptions terrify him. He hopes finding words for what happened, why, and how to live in the new turmoil will stop the nightmares. But Appaloosa-riding Judith Clearwater breaks his solitude, spinning tales that threaten the American myths that prop up Bitterroot Bob's personal identity. She suggests he look for answers in the high desert. Woody, the Aristotle-quoting saloon owner in nearby Fast Buck, sends Bitterroot Bob on questionable trails that test his beliefs for living in the world. And Roger Stegman challenges Bitterroot Bob to stop him from buying everyone's land for a water project that would spell disaster. Despite Stegman's rifle and range fire, Bitterroot Bob checks the wholesale landgrab. Throughout, the big strains on his heart are Judith Clearwater's pushing and Woody's pulling that open a way for Bitterroot Bob to handle his nightmare yet force him to admit his national views are flat out wrong. His new hope promises more direction than destination in a three-part ballad of joy, lament, and defiance.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781666743661
Publisher:	Wipf & Stock Publishers
Publication date:	07/26/2022
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	238
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Alex Campbell is an award-winning writer, producer, and director of more than two hundred information films for Fortune Top 25 corporations as well as government agencies, including the National Endowment for the Humanities. He lives in California.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“What happens when a Silicon Valley dropout, a Native American college professor, and an Aristotle-quoting saloon keeper meet among the rocky canyons and rattlesnakes of the American West? They philosophize—and how!—in this unconventional novel. Pursuing them and their property and dreams is a sinister, Californian moneybags who wants to buy them out and create his own Eden in the desert. Endangered is a philosophical thriller you won’t forget.”

—Harold Bordwell, former editor



“Bitterroot Bob’s search for meaning and purpose leads him to the edge of the Great Basin, where he must face his greatest fears. Endangered is a revelatory portrait of a man willing to sacrifice everything, including his ego, to reach his deepest humanity. Inspiring.”

—Michael C. Perkins, coauthor The Internet Bubble

Editorial Reviews

What happens when a Silicon Valley dropout, a Native American college professor, and an Aristotle-quoting saloon keeper meet among the rocky canyons and rattlesnakes of the American West? They philosophize—and how!—in this unconventional novel. Pursuing them and their property and dreams is a sinister, Californian moneybags who wants to buy them out and create his own Eden in the desert. Endangered is a philosophical thriller you won’t forget.”

—Harold Bordwell, former editor



“Bitterroot Bob’s search for meaning and purpose leads him to the edge of the Great Basin, where he must face his greatest fears. Endangered is a revelatory portrait of a man willing to sacrifice everything, including his ego, to reach his deepest humanity. Inspiring.”

—Michael C. Perkins, coauthor The Internet Bubble

From the Publisher