The Best of All Seasons, Fifty Years as a Montana Hunter
by Dan Aadland

“The Best of All Seasons, Fifty Years as a Montana Hunter, is much more than a recount of personal adventures. In prose that engages the interest of hunters and nonhunters alike, Aadland carries the reader to a Montana that is both distant and yet familiar. . . . With a deft touch for detail, Aadland describes scenes that ring true for generations of Montana hunters.”—Linda Halstead-Acharya, The Billings Gazette

“[A]n unapologetic, honest, and oftentimes nostalgic glimpse into the subsistence-through-recreation type of hunting that many multi-job, mortgage-payin’, real live Montanans participate in every year. Dan Aadland, a retired teacher and rancher from Absarokee, brings to life in this book what a truly enriching, educating, and humbling experience hunting can be. Aadland’s memoirs are accessible and relatable right from the beginning. . . . [His] honesty is as dead on as his Ruger #1s. . . . That is what makes The Best of All Seasons a great book—it is really just one big campfire story packed fill of wit, wisdom, and humor, and one can’t help but enjoy it.”—Outside Bozeman

“The book has its own beauty . . . . [T]he reader is able to go along with Aadland, accompany him, smile, laugh, edge closer to the fire, share a taste of Yukon Jack, and always be entertained by him and know one is not being sold a bill of goods but being told an adventurous and exciting love story.”—Roundup Magazine

“Aadland’s hunting adventures are well drawn in prose that is entertaining and thoughtful—a hard combination to accomplish. . . . The Best of All Seasons is a fine, boots-on-the-ground hunting book.”—Gray’s Sporting Journal