Idaho Commission for Libraries

Hole in the Sky (1992), an autobiography, memoir, and family history, traces the life of William Kittredge. As a child, Kittredge grew up on his family's Warner Valley ranch in the southeastern Oregon desert country, and he felt deep connections to the land and to the cowboys who worked it. As he aged, life became more complicated, as the tensions and dissolutions within his family, new ideas about land use, and his own struggles to come to terms with himself led him away from the ranch to Montana and a new life as a writer.