meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcast & Blast with Hal Herring

Writer and outdoorsman Malcolm Brooks

Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcast & Blast with Hal Herring

Zack Williams

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

4.6853 Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2020

⏱️ 115 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Missoula-based carpenter, elk hunter and bird dog man Malcolm Brooks is the author of the epic novel Painted Horses, a wild and beautifully written story of romance and collision in 1950s Montana, where ancient pictographs in unexplored canyons whisper stories about to be forever lost beneath waters impounded in the frenzy of the dam-building era. Painted Horses has been described by Rick Bass as "Reminiscent of the fiery, lyrical and animated spirit of Cormac McCarthy's Borderlands trilogy, and the wisdom and elegance of Wallace Stegner's Angle of Repose, Painted Horses is its own work, a big, old-fashioned and important novel." Hear what brought Brooks to this story and what drives him forward now.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

I hope people listen to this will try to see and how a work of art like this and I

0:07.4

ain't trying to like get hoity towardy but how a work of art like this comes to

0:11.1

to be like the obsessions of a human being rendered into a

0:15.3

canvas that's like about like life.

0:18.3

Inherently entwined with life and death realities.

0:25.8

I mean it is life and death reality.

0:28.2

I mean and to have it dramatized

0:35.6

so well on those cave walls so long ago. Yeah.

0:38.6

Bill Moyers asked him about the hunt and he says it's and I can't I can't say it like Joseph

0:45.6

Campbell he he actually struggles to get the words like he is like really trying

0:49.6

hard not to mess this up and he said it said it is the one place where human beings become nature.

0:57.0

I want to thank the Filsen Company for sponsoring this podcast. We wouldn't be here without them. Since

1:04.8

1897, Filsen has outfitted woodsmen, hunters, and anglers with the best clothing

1:09.2

in gear. I don't know if anybody remembers the Filsen 10 pants which were a standard logger

1:15.2

pant back in the old days and ended up being used also by bird hunters and anybody who

1:20.8

needed a completely indestructible pair of pants.

1:24.0

Filson's archives are full of testimonials to the Mackinole wool, the tin cloth pants helping

1:29.8

sportsmen survive in the wild.

1:32.0

In support of the Forest Service efforts to protect our

1:34.3

public lands, Philson's limited edition collection of Smoky Bear products has just

1:39.5

hit their website. And with a full selection of fishing vests and dry bags for rafting and I use a

1:46.6

dry bag for everything now.

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Zack Williams, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Zack Williams and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.