Last Bus to Wisdom: A Novel (Two Medicine Country)

Donal Cameorn is being raised by his grandmother, the cook at the legendary Double W ranch in Ivan Doig's beloved Two Medicine Country of the Montana Rockies.  But when Gram has to have surgery for "female trouble" in the summer of 1951, all she can think to do is to ship Donal off to her sister in faraway Wisconsin.  There Donal in in for a rude surprise: Aunt Kate is nothing like her sister.  She henpecks her good-natured husband, Herman the German, and Donal can't seem to get on her good side, either.  After one contretemps too many, Kate packs him back to the authorities in Montana on the  next Greyhound.  But as it turns out, Donal isn't traveling solo: Herman the German has decided to fly the coop with him.

Charming, wise, and slyly funny, Last But to Wisdom is a last sweet gift from a writer whose books have bestowed untold pleasure on countless readers.