Bio
Ohio State business grad Rube Wrightsman quit his job at age 24 to become a saddle tramp. Riding a shaky BSA Lightning, he headed west with his pardner, a 6’4” biker who went by the name of Bruno Degenerati. After 10,000 miles of adventures and flopping as a Nashville songwriter, Rube settled in northwest Montana.
Saddle Tramp Rube
Bruno Degenerati- Saddle Tramp Emeritus
For most of the next 25 years he lived without electricity or plumbing in a tiny earth-sheltered cabin he’d built in the mountains outside of Paradise, making mead and doing every dirty, dangerous, low-paying job that nobody else wanted. Between jobs he traveled, wrote a newspaper column and magazine articles. At age 50, on a lark, he infiltrated the local police department as a reserve officer and somehow ended up as Undersheriff of Sanders County. Now retired and very happily married, he decided to write a novel about the Appalachian and western characters he loves so well
