| Boone's Lick Contributor(s): McMurtry, Larry (Author) |
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ISBN: 074321627X ISBN-13: 9780743216272 Publisher: Simon & Schuster OUR PRICE: $15.29 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2001 Annotation: Master storyteller McMurtry unfurls a bright banner of a book following the fortunes of the Cecil family as they travel from Boone's Lick, Missouri, to the Western frontier. Fifteen-year-old Shay narrates, describing the journey that begins when his Ma decides to hunt down her elusive husband to tell him she's leaving him. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Historical - General - Fiction | Westerns - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 00056342 |
| Physical Information: 0.64" H x 4.86" W x 8.34" (0.67 lbs) 288 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 - Cultural Region - Western U.S. |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Larry McMurtry returns to the Old West in a fast-moving, comic tale about a woman determined to conquer anything that stands in the way of an ultimate confrontation with her wayward husband. In his first historical novel in ten years, Larry McMurtry introduces Mary Margaret, a nineteenth-century version of the formidable, unforgettable Aurora Greenway of Terms of Endearment. Mary Margaret is married to Dickie, who hauls supplies to the forts along the Oregon Trail and, as Mary Margaret rightly suspects, enjoys the pleasures of other women across most of the frontier. Fed up and harboring a secret love of her own, she collects the kids; her brother-in-law, Seth; her sister, Rosie; and her cranky father and makes her way westward to settle things once and for all. The story of their trek across the country is packed with the elements McMurtry fans love: encounters with historical figures such as Wild Bill Hickock and U.S. Army colonel Fetterman (whose incompetence resulted in one of the bloodiest massacres in the history of the American West), larger-than-life fictional characters who join the family on their journey, and confrontations with nature at its wildest. With characters based on actual traders of the Old Santa Fe Trail, Boone's Lick is vintage McMurtry. |
Contributor Bio(s): McMurtry, Larry: - Larry McMurtry is the author of twenty-nine novels, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Lonesome Dove, three memoirs, two collections of essays, and more than thirty screenplays. He lives in Archer City, Texas. |