An edition of The Legend of Colton H. Bryant (2008)

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An edition of The Legend of Colton H. Bryant (2008)

The legend of Colton H. Bryant

Large print ed.
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The tragic short life of Colton H. Bryant, a Wyoming roughneck in his mid-20s who in 2006 fell to his death on an oil rig owned by PattersonUTI Energy. He fell to his death because the drilling company had neglected to spend two thousand dollars on the mandated safety rails that would have saved his life. His family received no compensation. But they didn't expect to--they knew the company's ways, and after all as Colton would have said: "Mind over matter". This bittersweet story tells of Bryant's growing up in Wyoming and his eventual move to be part of the mineral boom by working the oil rigs.

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The legend of Colton H. Bryant
2009, Pocket
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2009, ISIS
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2008, Simon & Schuster
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The Legend of Colton H. Bryant
May 6, 2008, Penguin Press HC, The, Penguin Press
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2008, Penguin Group USA, Inc.
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Edition Notes

Originally published: London: Simon & Schuster, 2008.

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Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
622.3382092
Library of Congress
HD7269.P4 F85 2008

The Physical Object

Pagination
247 pages (large print)
Number of pages
247

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL30103442M
Internet Archive
legendofcoltonhb0000full
ISBN 10
0753182769, 0753182777
ISBN 13
9780753182765, 9780753182772
OCLC/WorldCat
305162419
Amazon ID (ASIN)

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Colton H. Bryant was one of Wyoming's native sons and grown by that high, dry place, he never once wanted to leave it. “Wyoming loves me,” he said, and it was true. Wyoming—roughneck, wild, open, and searingly beautiful—loved him, and Colton loved it back. As a child in school, Colton never could force himself to focus on his lessons. Instead, he'd plan where he'd go fishing later, or he'd wonder how many jackrabbits he might find on his favorite hunting patch, or he'd dream about the rides he would take on the wild mare he was breaking. “At my funeral, you'll all feel sorry for making me waste so much time in school,” he said to his best friend Jake—and it was true. Two things got Colton through the boredom of school and the neighborhood “K-mart cowboys” who bullied him: His best friend Jake and his favorite mantra, a snatch of a saying he heard on TV: Mind over matter—which meant to him: If you don't mind, it don't matter. Colton and Jake grew up wanting nothing more than the freedom to sleep out under the great Wyoming night sky, to hunt and fish and chase the horizon and to be just like Colton's dad, a strong and gentle man of few words. When it was time for Colton to marry and make money on his own, he took up as a hand on an oil rig. It was dangerous work, but Colton was the third generation in his family to work on the oil patch and he claimed it was in his blood. And anyway, he joked, he always knew he'd die young. Colton did die young, and he died on the rig—falling to his death because the drilling company had neglected to spend two thousand dollars on the mandated safety rails that would have saved his life. His family received no compensation. But they didn't expect to—they knew the company's ways, and after all as Colton would have said: Mind over matter. In Scribbling the Cat, Alexandra Fuller brought us the examined life of a Rhodesian soldier; now—in her inimitable poetic voice and with her pitch-perfect ear for dialogue—she brings before us the life of someone much closer to home, as unexpected as he is iconic. The moving, tough, and in many ways quintessentially American story of Colton H. Bryant's life could not be told without also telling the story of the land that grew him—the beautiful and somehow tragic Wyoming; the land where there are still such things as cowboys roaming the plains, where it's relationships that get you through, and where a just, soulful, passionate man named Colton H. Bryant lived and died.

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