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THE BIG SKY
by Guthrie, A. B. Jr.; (Wallace Stegner, Foreword)
- Used
- near fine
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/None as Issued
- ISBN 10
- 0395611539
- ISBN 13
- 9780395611531
- Seller
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About This Item
Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1992. First Edition, First Pinting . Soft cover. Near Fine/None as Issued. Text/BRAND NEW. Illustrated soft cover/NF w/faint creasings to upper front & lower back corners from poor shelving. Western fiction. Historian, novelist, screen writer Alfred Bertram Guthrie, Jr. (1901 - 1991) received Pulitzer for his novel The Way West (1950). The Big Sky (1947) is of a mountain man from Kentucky who traps beaver and lives with the Indians in the West during the 1830's and '40's.. The author called himself "Bud" because he felt that Alfred Bertram "was a sissy name
Synopsis
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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- 100 POCKETS
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 010265
- Title
- THE BIG SKY
- Author
- Guthrie, A. B. Jr.; (Wallace Stegner, Foreword)
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- None as Issued
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Pinting
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0395611539
- ISBN 13
- 9780395611531
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Boston, MA
- Date Published
- 1992
- Keywords
- Fiction/Western/Literature
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