Absaroka Fringe Leather Jacket

Paradise Valley.

This, she says, is the secret to happiness.
I begin to make a case for paper maps and Blackwing pencils, and prepare to offer up my collection of really good bourbon as further evidence, but she's not having the joke.
No, Peterman. Listen.
We lean against a weathered run of jack fence and take in the valley and the Absaroka mountains that rise up in ovation. The distance murmur of the Yellowstone rolling past. Deep in my chest, I feel the ancient, quiet thrum of this vast nothingness. This everything-ness.
Later, when we ride up through the canyon, I tell her she looks marvelous in hats and leather and fringe.
I admit she's right, of course, about the other thing, too.

Absaroka Fringe Leather Jacket (No. J7501). Classic Western fringe jacket artfully and meticulously constructed from 100% goat suede. Lined in Korean twill. Suede-covered buttons. Fringe along front and back yoke and sleeve seams. Notched collar. Back and front yokes come to a point. Slightly cropped. Imported.