7/7/2023 0 Comments A river runs through it author![]() ![]() ![]() In the chapter 4, “The River of the Road to the Buffalo.” Maclean wrote this sentence as lead-in to the Bunyan Bug: “The most acclaimed fisher of the river in those days was an eccentric song-and-dance man, rod builder and fly tier who called himself Paul Bunyan and who on occasion hopped around Missoula on a pogo stick.” That may be the only sentence to include both “pogo stick” and “fly tier.” Take Maclean writing of the Bunyan Bug, a fly rugged enough to handle rushing big waters. Those historical details reminded me of Herman Melville recounting whaling minutiae in “Moby Dick.” Credit: John Maclean’s personal collectionīut Maclean takes a different tack than his father and writes more of a history with details of the Blackfoot and other Montana rivers, characters and fly fishing, as well as family facts. ![]()
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