where the sky goes on forever. where everyone must bend to the land. where to hunt, to fish, to sleep under that big sky aren t activities, but a way of life. - it was between here and those mountains that cheyenne and crow battle took place. but i like it. it s very peaceful, huh? - what was it like 100 years ago, 200 years ago? - oh, not much different. this was never forested. this is the dry side of the river, cause the primary winds come from the west. and rain tends to blow over here. that brings the snow to the mountains. bourdain: legendary writer and poet jim harrison is one of those people, and this is his home. [upbeat rock music] both: i took a walk through this beautiful world felt the cool rain on my shoulder found something good in this beautiful world i felt the rain getting colder - la, la - sha la, la, la, la sha la, la, la, la - sha la, la, la - sha la, la, la, la sha la, la, la, la, la [bluesy western music] - am i as o
- time. she preferred us drifting through our lives like clouds, riding her like the gentlest of horses. you know if you ve seen northern lights and a thunderstorm in the east. and wolves howling all at once, it s sort of nice. [chuckles] do you know there are 90 billion galaxies? i get a little tentative when i hear that. bourdain: jim harrison is a colossus, a legend, and the last of his kind. - people forget children grow up making up stories, and that s all i m doing as an adult, you know? bourdain: he s one of america s greatest living poets, the author of 39 novels and books,
many set in montana, including the legends of the fall. he s a screenwriter and gourmet. in his food memoir, the raw and the cooked, he chronicles many, many epic meals. he has lived a life that can only be imagined. dan is his friend and confidant, and the two have, for years, hunted and fished together. [glasses clinking] - here s to the game. bourdain: his health prevents him from hunting these days, but not from enjoying a meal of spatchcocked hungarian partridge. - i made a liver loaf with elk meat, elk liver, and pork fat. - awesome. - and some spices. gonna have some beets. quail in aspic. - quail en gelée. - en gelée. elk carpaccio. bourdain: and a morel and chanterelle risotto using a stock made from ten pounds of roasted game bird bones. and smoked trout? - smoked trout. yeah. we caught these on the bighorn. - you know, this is my problem with montana all this primitive, country-ass cooking