Boone's Lick
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| Rating | : | 4.38 (782 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0792730712 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 142 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
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. 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. 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
QueenD said Boone's Lick - an entertaining ride review. I am a die-hard Larry McMurtry fan and have read many of his novels, all of which I have enjoyed. No one quite captures the "Old West" as well as him. His laconic sense of humor and dialogue drops you right into the middle of the story. Your pace of reading slows down and you become a part o. D. E. Gaasterland, MD said good for bedtime reading. Written with many short chapters; so, good for bedtime reading. Yet the story as told is choppy, with gaps in the tale between some of the chapters. It doesn't flow. It's a bunch of loosely connected short story tales. Then at the end, in a slightly longer chapter, the author appears to have. Sara R. Mott said Great Read. This story reminds me so much of my mother's family. Hardship after hardship yet they all turned out fine.Left me with a good feeling.
And so the Cecil family leaves their little town (where Wild Bill Hickok makes a cameo appearance) and travels by wagon to Wyoming, accompanied along the way by a fat Québecois priest and a Shoshone. Though the story is narrated by her oldest son, 15-year-old Shay, the real hero of the book is Mary Margaret, the mother. But there's more here than shooting and quipping: McMurtry's wagon full of frustrated Missourians makes a fine narrative vehicle: we get a first-hand account of the Native American wars; we get the perspective of the women left behind in the opening of the West; we get a wagon's-eye view of the hard jou