 Beginning with "Nobody's Angel" in 1981, the setting has consistently been in Montana, usually the fictitious town of “Deadrock” (presumably a play on “Livingston”).The familiar setting and certain personal parallels make for easy inferences of McGuane himself in his string of male protagonists in these novels, except for the female protagonist, in "The Cadence of Grass" (2002).He moved from the Paradise Valley to a different property in the Boulder River valley near McLeod, Montana.