- Audio Cassette
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio; Unabridged edition (Dec 1 1990)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0671727818
- ISBN-13: 978-0671727819
- Product Dimensions: 18.5 x 10.7 x 5.7 cm
- Shipping Weight: 376 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
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#2,147,077 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #5 in Books > Audiobooks > Authors, A-Z > ( M ) > McMurtry, Larry
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From Publishers Weekly
McMurtry's ( Anything for Billy ) meandering, gentle-humored threnody for the passing of the old Wild West, assembles an eclectic crew of aging friends, both fictional and historic. In the late 1800s, ex-beavermen Jim Ragg and Bartle Bone ramble over the prairie, sleep in ghost towns and lament the days when "beaver still splashed in the cool streams of the west." With them travels Indian scout No Ears, whose acute senses are keyed to the animal and spirit worlds. In Miles City, Mont., softhearted Dora runs her fancy bordello, bewailing her lost cowboy T. Blue, who married a half-Indian bride but who still yearns for and visits the lovelorn madam. Dora finally weds young giant Ogden, gets pregnant and buys Miner's Rest, a proper hotel, signaling that the "era of the buffalo girls" is also over. Interspersed throughout the narrative are sharpshooter Calamity Jane's brooding letters to her daughter, Janey, whose father was Wild Bill Hickok. A trip to England with Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show fails to cheer the gang, and they return home to sink into melancholy and death. McMurtry's genius with language always enchants, but this tale's charm is muffled by sadness. Literary Guild featured alternate.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Library Journal
McMurtry, a prolific mythologizer/demythologizer of the Old West, here takes on Calamity Jane (Martha Jane Canary, 1852?-1903)--who confesses in a series of letters to being a drunken hell-raiser but never an outlaw--and sundry larger-than-life cohorts. The author's talent for characterizations and storytelling shines as he depicts gritty events and relationships in the life of fur trappers and Indians who, along with Calamity Jane, must resort to performing in Bill Cody's Wild West show in order to survive. They exploit and are exploited by their frontier lifestyle before being defeated by it in the end. A spellbinding saga with a surprise ending. Highly recommended. Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 6/15/90.
- Will Hepfer, SUNY at Buffalo Libs.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
- Will Hepfer, SUNY at Buffalo Libs.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
For Women Interested in Historica Women of the West!,
By Evelyn Horan (California) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Buffalo Girls: A Novel (Paperback)
Many historic characters are mentioned in the novel, however, the emphasis is on Calamity Jane and her letters to her daughter fathered by Wild Bill Hickok. We know the West is passing when the characters must join a Wild West show and tour Europe. There is poignancy and a feeling of loss. We care about these noble scalawags! A good read!Evelyn Horan - teacher/counselor/author Jeannie, A Texas Frontier Girl - Books One - Three
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This review is from: Buffalo Girls: A Novel (Paperback)
This was an enjoyable summer read, a strange short story of western misfits packed, packaged and baggaged to london. Annie oakley's duel with the duke makes the entire book worth reading, as does the reflections on whales, and the beaver. and...
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great summer read,
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This review is from: Buffalo Girls: A Novel (Paperback)
This was an enjoyable summer read, a strange short story of western misfits packed, packaged and baggaged to london. Annie oakley's duel with the duke makes the entire book worth reading, as does the reflections on whales, and the beaver. and...
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