Fuller - The Legend of Colton H Bryant

If you ever doubted that there are still heroic, big-hearted men in the world, look no further than Colton H. Bryant The Times

With the force of an emotional novel, this dramatised biography is a polemic against the energy industrys spoilation of the high plains of Wyoming and the dangerous exploitation of the men who drill there for oil and gasHaving got to know Colton so well in this colourfully written case history, the reader will deplore any industrial attempt to dismiss him as a mere statistic The Spectator

I found this book in some ways hard to read, because I had a lump in my throat almost the entire way through. It is very effectively written and it reminds me, in terms of the polemic, of Mark Twain and Huckleberry Finn , which is a polemic against slavery but it doesnt ever say that up front: it tells the story of someone with whom you feel such intense sympathy Start the Week , Phillip Bobbit, author of Terror and Consent: The Wars for the Twenty-First Century

The life story of this soulful, blue-eyed boy with a gentle heart inspired this moving, poignant tale that explores big themes such as hardship, friendship, prejudice and the sad lot of the misfit. If you fancy a change from your usual holiday reads, this will lend some much-needed colour Glamour

The Legend of Colton H. Bryant tells of the life and death of Colton, a sweet-natured kid from Wyoming whose inherent goodness overcomes the withering taunts thrown at him because of his learning difficulties. He lives a short, kind life, and dies a preventable death on one of the oil rigs that are disfiguring Wyomings pristine wilderness. It reads like a brilliant novel but its all true Herald

This modern Western is a true storyBut The Legend of Colton H. Bryant must be read as fiction. The pain of this storyand especially of its beautifully executed endingis best told as a traditional Western, where it and its landscape can be given some sort of reassuring order Times Literary Supplement

Fuller makes us feel as if at first hand the fragility of bodies pitched against Wyomings fearful winters and the hellish drills and derricks of the oil fields Evening Standard

Through long interviews with Coltons family and friends, Fuller has created a version of his life. Its tough but lyrical, personal but anthropological, in the tradition of Truman Capotes In Cold Blood Daily Telegraph

Alexandra Fullers wonderful biography The Legend of Colton H. Bryant tells how Colton started work as a drill on a rig, despite his young wife begging him to quitbut all the big heart in the world cant save him from the new unkind greed that has possessed Wyoming during this latest mineral boomA poignant tribute to one of the worlds good people Belfast Telegraph