Why Oklahoma has agreed to do the novel of this aging academic, I do not know,” Willard Wyman wrote the editors and marketing department of the University of Oklahoma Press prior to the release of High Country. “Certainly they know, as I know, that it is risky. But it is about a distinctly Western craft…. And it is not an awkward book.” No indeed. High Country might have been written by an “aging academic.” It might have been that man’s first novel, almost his first fiction.
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