In this true story with “narrative liberties,” Fuller takes a detailed, affectionate look at the life of a young man who, although his dreams and abilities never take him far from home, traveled deep into the affections of those who knew him. Bryant, Alexandra Fuller begs to disagree. However, in her third book, T he Legend of Colton H. His education slowed and hampered by ADHD, his ambitions and prospects stunted by the isolation of his surroundings, Colton was a person whom many of us might promptly dismiss as another face in the crowd. Still, the feeling that this young man’s end was somehow fated did nothing to ease the loss of a father, son, and friend taken away too soon.īy prevailing standards, Colton H. When, at the age of twenty-five, a fall at his job on an oil rig brought Colton’s ecstatic running abruptly to an end, there was little reason for those who knew him to be surprised.
He seemed to know that that race might be over in a very short time. Bryant also sensed that he was racing through life. Yet, amid all the exuberant pleasure that he found in speed, Colton H. He even imagined that he could catch a pronghorn antelope with his bare hands. He found himself drawn to the rodeo corrals where a man’s worth was measured in eight seconds flat.
He guzzled Mountain Dew and rode the open highways with delight. He wanted his teacher to talk twice as fast so he could get out of school twice as early.
Bryant always liked it when things happened fast. READERS GUIDE Questions and Topics for Discussionīorn in a Ford Thunderbird streaking down an empty highway in southwestern Wyoming, Colton H.