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Randy Brown mentions reading this book and others by A.B. Guthrie as inspiration for wanting to live in the woods in Alaska. He says 'I'd read some of these uh, you know books like The Big Sky and some other baby gothries and uh and I always felt like I was born about one hundred years too late.'

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Speaker 1 discusses this mountain man novel while explaining ancestral cooking methods. He explains that Montana's nickname 'Big Sky Country' originated from this book when the Montana tourism board asked AB Guthrie for permission to use the phrase from his novel in a highway campaign. He describes cooking scenes from the book, including a protagonist making cornmeal balls in ash and cooking rabbit on rocks, and later references to burying deer heads in ash as a favorite meal. This is used to illustrate ancient 'under the coals' cooking methods.

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Discussed in the context of mountain men and PTSD. Speaker describes it as 'A. B. Guthrie's fantastic mountain man book, The Big Sky' and explains it's a well-researched fictional tale of a mountain man who becomes a damaged man when he returns east. The book is noted as the origin of Montana being called 'Big Sky Country.'

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Referenced when discussing mountain goats - someone mentions reading this book where 'a mountain goat saves his life' (the protagonist shoots and eats the goat). The speaker notes it's 'such a good book' and that it's why people call Montana 'Big Sky Country' because the book coined that term. The author's name was asked for but not clearly provided in the transcript.

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Steve mentions this as 'one of my favorite mountain man books' and explains that characters in the book loved to roast mule deer heads. This inspired a recipe in Steve's own cookbook called 'The Big Sky Roasted Head' which involves roasting a mule deer head for tacos.