The Big Sky
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
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A landmark work of American historical fiction, The Big Sky chronicles the rugged life of Boone Caudill, a young Kentucky frontiersman who flees his troubled home in the 1830s to seek freedom in the untamed wilderness of the American West. Guthrie's sweeping narrative follows Boone and his companions as they push deeper into the vast, unspoiled landscapes of the Missouri River country and the Rocky Mountains, living as mountain men among fur traders and Native American tribes. The novel presents the frontier not as a romantic paradise but as a place of raw beauty and inevitable loss, capturing the tragic irony that the very men who love the wilderness most are the ones who destroy it. Written with lyrical precision and an unflinching, elegiac tone, it stands as one of the great American novels of the twentieth century and a defining portrait of the mountain man era.
Author: A. B. Guthrie, Jr.
Format: Paperback
Published: 1980, Time-Life Books Inc., Alexandria, Virginia
Genre: Historical fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
A landmark work of American historical fiction, The Big Sky chronicles the rugged life of Boone Caudill, a young Kentucky frontiersman who flees his troubled home in the 1830s to seek freedom in the untamed wilderness of the American West. Guthrie's sweeping narrative follows Boone and his companions as they push deeper into the vast, unspoiled landscapes of the Missouri River country and the Rocky Mountains, living as mountain men among fur traders and Native American tribes. The novel presents the frontier not as a romantic paradise but as a place of raw beauty and inevitable loss, capturing the tragic irony that the very men who love the wilderness most are the ones who destroy it. Written with lyrical precision and an unflinching, elegiac tone, it stands as one of the great American novels of the twentieth century and a defining portrait of the mountain man era.