Rick Bass's deer pasture is centered in the rustic beauty 
of the Texas Hill Country—a land of ravines and hollows, 
dark and shady, with near-vertical bluffs. In the fall 
the hickories turn gold and the water is clear and cold 
and still.


Also in the fall the Bass men meet there to embark on a 
week of camping and hunting, for the deer pasture is in 
the heart of white-tailed deer country, and the Basses 
have leased that same 956 acres for hunting each November 
for the past forty-nine years.


In these seventeen essays, the author tells the story of 
the deer pasture and its significance as a family tradition. 
More than just a place to stalk deer, chase armadillos, and 
tell campfire stories, Rick Bass's deer pasture is also a place 
to renew family ties and recharge spiritual batteries.


In his celebration of rock houses and full moons of the Hill 
Country, of waterfalls and the habits of deer, Bass conveys 
the close relationship of humans and nature even in this modern 
age. In his sketches of grandparents, uncles, and cousins and 
their ties to this piece of land, he touches on the depths of 
the common bonds of family.


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RICK BASS is a nature and environmental writer in Montana. 
Since his first book, The Deer Pasture, he has written 
several other widely read and highly acclaimed books, including 
The Sky, the Stars, the Wilderness and The Book of
Yaak.