“Thomas McGuane—fisherman, hunter, rancher, writer—says ‘good riddance’ to his kind.”

Thomas McGuane is among the last great outdoorsmen-novelists. At 85, his book “A Wooded Shore” shows his enduring command of the form, with stories evoking Hemingway-like precision amid contemporary Western decline. Tyler A. Harper visited the author on his Montana ranch to see what we stand to lose when this kind of writer disappears.