Butcher's Crossing
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Author: John Williams
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 328
It is the 1870s, and Will Andrews, fed up by Emerson to seek Òan original relation to nature,Ó drops out of Harvard and heads west. He washes up in ButcherÕs Crossing, a small Kansas town on the outskirts of nowhere. ButcherÕs Crossing is full of restless men looking for ways to make money and ways to waste it. Before long Andrews strikes up a friendship with one of them, a man who regales Andrews with tales of immense herds of buffalo, ready for the taking, hidden away in a beautiful valley deep in the Colorado Rockies. He convinces Andrews to join in an expedition to track the animals down. The journey out is grueling, but at the end is a place of paradisal richness. Once there, however, the three men abandon themselves to an orgy of slaughter, so caught up in killing buffalo that they lose all sense of time. Winter soon overtakes them: they are snowed in. Next spring, half-insane with cabin fever, cold, and hunger, they stagger back to ButcherÕs Crossing to and a world as irremediably changed as they have been.
Author: John Williams
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 328
It is the 1870s, and Will Andrews, fed up by Emerson to seek Òan original relation to nature,Ó drops out of Harvard and heads west. He washes up in ButcherÕs Crossing, a small Kansas town on the outskirts of nowhere. ButcherÕs Crossing is full of restless men looking for ways to make money and ways to waste it. Before long Andrews strikes up a friendship with one of them, a man who regales Andrews with tales of immense herds of buffalo, ready for the taking, hidden away in a beautiful valley deep in the Colorado Rockies. He convinces Andrews to join in an expedition to track the animals down. The journey out is grueling, but at the end is a place of paradisal richness. Once there, however, the three men abandon themselves to an orgy of slaughter, so caught up in killing buffalo that they lose all sense of time. Winter soon overtakes them: they are snowed in. Next spring, half-insane with cabin fever, cold, and hunger, they stagger back to ButcherÕs Crossing to and a world as irremediably changed as they have been.
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NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand books is not always available. Please contact us if you have a question about this title.
Author: John Williams
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 328
It is the 1870s, and Will Andrews, fed up by Emerson to seek Òan original relation to nature,Ó drops out of Harvard and heads west. He washes up in ButcherÕs Crossing, a small Kansas town on the outskirts of nowhere. ButcherÕs Crossing is full of restless men looking for ways to make money and ways to waste it. Before long Andrews strikes up a friendship with one of them, a man who regales Andrews with tales of immense herds of buffalo, ready for the taking, hidden away in a beautiful valley deep in the Colorado Rockies. He convinces Andrews to join in an expedition to track the animals down. The journey out is grueling, but at the end is a place of paradisal richness. Once there, however, the three men abandon themselves to an orgy of slaughter, so caught up in killing buffalo that they lose all sense of time. Winter soon overtakes them: they are snowed in. Next spring, half-insane with cabin fever, cold, and hunger, they stagger back to ButcherÕs Crossing to and a world as irremediably changed as they have been.
Author: John Williams
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 328
It is the 1870s, and Will Andrews, fed up by Emerson to seek Òan original relation to nature,Ó drops out of Harvard and heads west. He washes up in ButcherÕs Crossing, a small Kansas town on the outskirts of nowhere. ButcherÕs Crossing is full of restless men looking for ways to make money and ways to waste it. Before long Andrews strikes up a friendship with one of them, a man who regales Andrews with tales of immense herds of buffalo, ready for the taking, hidden away in a beautiful valley deep in the Colorado Rockies. He convinces Andrews to join in an expedition to track the animals down. The journey out is grueling, but at the end is a place of paradisal richness. Once there, however, the three men abandon themselves to an orgy of slaughter, so caught up in killing buffalo that they lose all sense of time. Winter soon overtakes them: they are snowed in. Next spring, half-insane with cabin fever, cold, and hunger, they stagger back to ButcherÕs Crossing to and a world as irremediably changed as they have been.