Context:

Speaker 1 discusses this mountain man novel while explaining ancestral cooking methods. He explains that Montana's nickname 'Big Sky Country' originated from this book when the Montana tourism board asked AB Guthrie for permission to use the phrase from his novel in a highway campaign. He describes cooking scenes from the book, including a protagonist making cornmeal balls in ash and cooking rabbit on rocks, and later references to burying deer heads in ash as a favorite meal. This is used to illustrate ancient 'under the coals' cooking methods.