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The Big Sky - A. B. Guthrie Jr.
The Big Sky
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A classic portrait of America's vast frontier that inspired the Western genre in fiction.   Originally published more than fifty years ago, The Big Sky is the first of A. B. Guthrie Jr.'s epic adventure novels set in the American West. Here he introduces Boone Caudill, Jim Deakins, and Dick... show more
A classic portrait of America's vast frontier that inspired the Western genre in fiction.   Originally published more than fifty years ago, The Big Sky is the first of A. B. Guthrie Jr.'s epic adventure novels set in the American West. Here he introduces Boone Caudill, Jim Deakins, and Dick Summers: traveling the Missouri River from St. Louis to the Rockies, these frontiersmen live as trappers, traders, guides, and explorers. The story centers on Caudill, a young Kentuckian driven by a raging hunger for life and a longing for the blue sky and brown earth of big, wild places. Caught up in the freedom and savagery of the wilderness, Caudill becomes an untamed mountain man, whom only the beautiful daughter of a Blackfoot chief dares to love.
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Format: paperback
ISBN: 9780618154630 (0618154639)
ASIN: 0618154639
Publisher: Mariner Books
Pages no: 400
Edition language: English
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makinghismark
makinghismark rated it
5.0 The Big Sky Review
Before Lonesome Dove and All the Pretty Horses, A. B. Guthrie's The Big Sky was the go-to novel of the American West. Those who want a gritty and realistic portrayal of the characters and environment that made up the frontier at that time need look no further. Sink your teeth into The Big Sky and at...
Lisa (Harmony)
Lisa (Harmony) rated it
2.0 The Big Sky
I tried--truly I did. Guthrie is a Pulitzer Prize winner and this has been called his masterpiece. It's not badly written by any means, quite the contrary, but this is one of those books I find way too dark in terms of the characters--and I say that as someone that loved The Color Purple and The Kit...
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