Surfing the "westerns" section on Netflix yesterday, I stumbled across the 1995 film The Ranger, the Cook & a Hole in the Sky. Starring Sam Elliot and a young Jerry O'Connell as cocky, over-confident Forest Service Ranger in 1919 in the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness in Idaho, this film is pretty corny and screams made-for-tv (even though it wasn't). But watch it anyways. In researching the film a little more, I saw that the film was adapted from a semi-autobiographical collection of stories by Norman Maclean titled A River Runs Through It. From what I hear, the book is leagues better, as is often the case, telling the tale of Maclean's own stint as a seventeen-year-old Forest Service Ranger in Idaho. Aside from "The Ranger, the Cook & a Hole in the Sky", the book includes two other stories, "Logging and Pimping and Your Old Pal Jim" and the title story "A River Runs Through It". A River Runs Through It was, as I'm sure most of you know, also made into a film in 1992 (by Robert Redford), starring a young Brad Pitt. Who's seen these films? And more importantly, read this book? Just grabbed the book on ebay this morning.Watch the trailer for A River Runs Through It here.