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1) The big sky
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The Big Sky begins A. B. Guthrie, Jr.'s epic western saga that spans over a hundred years in the course of six novels. We are introduced to Boone Caudill, who travels the Missouri River from St. Louis to the Rockies, leaving his abusive father to find a life of freedom in the wild. Along the way he gains the friendship of Jim Deakins and Dick Summers, men who share his dream of a life of trapping and exploring. Caudill also wins the love of a beautiful
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An enormously entertaining classic, THE WAY WEST brings to life the adventure of the western passage and the pioneer spirit. The sequel to THE BIG SKY, this celebrated novel charts a frontiersman's return to the untamed West in 1846. Dick Summers, as pilot of a wagon train, guides a group of settlers on the difficult journey from Missouri to Oregon. In sensitive but unsentimental prose, Guthrie illuminates the harsh trials and resounding triumphs...
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Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin
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[1995]
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"'Fair Land, Fair Land' marks the sequel to A.B. Guthrie, Jr.'s two masterworks, 'The Big Sky' and 'The Way West'. Dick Summers, the frontiersman hero of 'The Way West', heads east from Oregon seeking renewed companionship with Teal Eye, the mother of his child, and retribution from his former compatriot Boon Caudill. Imbued with a rich sense of the impermanence of the idyllic plains, this captivating western epic offers a stirring commentary on a...
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