Author Jim Harrison is Dead at 78 - The Drake Magazine

By Tom BieMarch 28, 201635 min read

Author and outdoorsman Jim Harrison passed away on Saturday morning at his home in Patagonia, Ariz. He was 78. The Michigan native spent his recent summers near Livingston, Mont., where on occasion he could be found bellied up at the Murray Bar or casting flies on the Yellowstone River. With a smoke dangling from his…

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