Allen Morris Jones has lived and worked in Montana most of his life. At age twenty-five, he became the editor of one of the West's most highly regarded periodicals, Big Sky Journal, where he published such writers as Annie Proulx, Jim Harrison, and Thomas McGuane. Jones recently resigned this post, after five years with the magazine, in order to devote his full energies to completing Last Year's River, his first novel. He is also the author of Hunting and Ethics in the Missouri River Breaks and the coeditor, with Jeff Wetmore, of Where We Live: The Best of Big Sky Journal. Jones is an avid fis...