Sam Western Reads From His New Novel "Canyons"

Sam Western lives in Sheridan, Wyoming, and is a two-time recipient of the Wyoming Literary Fellowship for fiction. Fellow author Craig Johnson has described Western as “one of the finest writers in the American West.” Western spent over 14 years writing and refining his latest novel, “Canyons,” which explores themes of revenge and atonement. This excerpt takes place at an elk camp in the Bighorn Mountains.