Ep. 122 - Allen Morris Jones - Western Storyteller

Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcast & Blast with Hal Herring

Zack Williams

Outdoors, Wilderness, Sports, Fishing, Outdoor, Hunting, Sports & Recreation

4.6 • 853 Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2022

⏱️ 107 minutes

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Ep. 122: Allen Morris Jones - Western Storyteller

2022 marks the 25th anniversary of the publication of one of the most important treatises on hunting ever written. Allen Morris Jones’ book A Quiet Place of Violence: Hunting and Ethics in the Missouri River Breaks was once best known among a kind of chosen few outdoorsmen and women, those who relished the history of their pursuit and the philosophy of immersion into landscape, wildlife, blood and meat, and finality – and who wanted to ponder the deep why of what drove them. It was a book found in bloodstained packs, on sun-cracked truck dashboards, on cabin bookshelves beside great works of the distant past: Ortega y Gasset, Teddy Roosevelt, Grancel Fitz. In the past 15 years, A Quiet Place of Violence has found a vastly larger audience among a younger generation, hunters who are coming to the pursuit on their own, without the traditions and the answers of the past. Join us for an in-depth conversation with Allen Jones, on his work and his life, on hunting, writing, philosophy, and on the (possible) banishment of abstraction.

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0:00.0	Hello everybody, this is Hal hearing and thanks for being here at Backcountry Hunters and
0:04.2	Angers Podcasts and Blast.
0:06.8	I'm here with an old friend of mine today and I want to introduce Alan Boris Jones
0:12.1	before we start the interview there to sort of just get some stuff out of the way.
0:16.0	Alan and I go way, way back.
0:18.0	He's been a huge help to me.
0:20.0	He's one of the best editors and writers in the state of Montana if not farther beyond that.
0:26.2	But we, Alan and I wanted to do this interview to celebrate the 25th anniversary of his book,
0:32.2	A Quiet Place of Violence, Hunting and Ethics in the Missouri River Breaks.
0:37.0	My copy I got in 2006 when Alan and I were working together at New West and internet news magazine and just in the last five
0:47.3	six seven years I think quiet place of violence as Alan O abbreviate it sometime to QPPV. It has achieved the kind of cult following amongst hunters in America.
1:02.0	It's kind of the American version of Ortega, you guess it's,
1:07.0	meditations on hunting published in Spain a hundred years ago, plus change.
1:12.0	So with that I just want to tell you I recommend you go to
1:19.0	Alan's website when you're done here Alan Morris Jones.com and look at the short stories and
1:24.2	essays that he's written over the years, in addition to his long run at Big Sky Journal
1:32.2	where he was the main top dog there and editor and writer.
1:37.7	He's also the author of three novels, last year's river, a bloom Bones, and Sweeney on the Rocks.
1:45.0	And I was lucky to be introduced to last year's River a long time ago when it first came out
1:49.4	and before I knew Alan, it's a great book.
1:52.0	He has since written Montana for
1:54.1	kids, a story of our state. And he co-edited with William Kittridge, who was
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