5/13/2023 0 Comments The smoke jumper by nicholas evans![]() ![]() ![]() Now of course I have a lot of friends there and it has become the place that I yearn to be in. But it wasn’t until I was researching The Horse Whisperer that I got to go to Montana. The real countryside was so much bigger and more dramatic. It wasn’t until my twenties that I first got the chance to visit the American West and when I did, of course, I realized that most of those TV westerns had been shot on the back lot of some LA studio. ![]() The first writer that I really connected with was Jack London. I was also an avid reader and devoured westerns. I used to watch all those great old TV western series – Wagon Train, Rawhide, Hawkeye and The Last of the Mohicans. When I was quite young my parents moved way out in the English countryside, a long way from all my friends, so I spent a lot of time on my own, most of it playing cowboys and indians. Long before I got a chance to travel there, the images of that landscape had a great influence on me. ![]() The truth is I have always been obsessed with the place. A lot of people find it odd that an English guy should be writing about the American West. What is it that draws you to writing about the American West?Ī: This is my third novel, and the third in which the action (though not all of it) takes place in Montana. Q: You’re English … but you don’t write “English” novels. The following is a conversation with Nicholas Evans about The Smoke Jumper. ![]()
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