An adventure tale of the first kind by a master of the 20th Century Western novel.

The Big It

Guthrie, Jr. , A. B.

Ballantine Books

With his revered classics The Big Sky and The Way West, A. B. Guthrie, Jr., claimed his preeminent post as the father of the western epic. Fair Land, Fair Land, first published in 1982, marks the sequel to his two masterworks and rounds out a chronological gap, the mid-nineteenth century, in Guthrie's Big Sky series. Reappearing here is Dick Summers, of the earlier sagas, now a wizened conservationist who seeks retribution from his former compatriot Boone Caudill and renewed companionship with the self-reliant Teal Eye. Imbued with a rich sense for the impermanence of the idyllic plains, this tour de force offers a stirring commentary on a country's physical and spiritual erosion, as relevant today as it was a decade ago.

Fair Land, Fair Land

Literature & Fiction

United States

Mariner Books Classics

When These Thousand Hills was published in 1956, The Saturday Review proclaimed it to be "so compelling that it is hard indeed to set aside until it has been devoured." Conjuring up the ephemeral world of cattle ranchers in the 1880s, this intimate saga delights in a Montana community's boisterous, wanderlusting eccentrics as they chase after love and their unbridled ambitions. At its center is Lat Evans, good-hearted and yet seduced by the possibilities for prosperity in his new life; gradually he discerns how the perils of the natural world, and most especially human nature, can conspire to frustrate a young man's best intentions. A lively, quixotic revisit to our historic youth, this literary classic deftly captures western drama at its finest, with all its accompanying toils of the heart.

These Thousand Hills (Big Sky)

Product Description 
"Though the story is complete in itself, it belongs chronologically between The way West and These thousand hills"--Author's note. 
 Review \n"A.B. Guthrie, Jr. has long been regarded as perhaps America's premiere Western historical novelist. Mr. Guthrie was one of the first to depict Western characters not as stock figures in shoot-'em-ups but as believable human beings struggling with historical forces." The New York Times 
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 About the Author \nA. B. GUTHRIE, JR. (1901–1991), was the author of numerous books, including six Big Sky novels, as well as the Academy Award–nominated screenplay for the classic film 
Shane. He received the 1950 Pulitzer Prize for his novel 
The Way West. Guthrie was honored for his contribution to literature and his portrayal of the American West.

Fair Land, Fair Land (Big Sky)

Literary

Mariner Books

The Way West

Genre Fiction

Bantam]

THE BIG SKY is the first of A.B. Guthrie's epic adventure novels of America's vast frontier. It is a story as great as the land that inspired it, sweeping westward from Kentucky, up the Missouri River into Indian Country. Towering above the novel is Guthrie's unforgettable hero, Boone Caudill, a true mountain man driven by a raging hunger for life and a longing for the blue sky and brown earth of the big, wild places. A legend before he turns 20, Boone becomes a powerful White Savage, an untamed life force that only one woman, the beautiful daughter of a Blackfoot chief, would dare to love. It is this magnificent spirit that Guthrie celebrates with his vivid storytelling--the glory of the bigness, the wildness, the freedom and undying dream of the West.

Big Sky

Fair land, fair land

Dick Summers seeks the world he knew as hunter and mountain man and finds a happy marriage and good comradeship, but increasing settlement diminishes life on the upper Missouri

Contemporary

The Big Sky is the first of A.B. Guthrie's epic adventure novels of America's vast frontier. It is a story as great as the land that inspired it, sweeping westward from Kentucky, up the Missouri River into Indian Country. Towering above the novel is Guthrie's unforgettable hero, Boone Caudill, a true mountain man driven by a raging hunger for life and a longing for the blue sky and brown earth of the big, wild places. A legend before he turns 20, Boone becomes a powerful White Savage, an untamed life force that only one woman, the beautiful daughter of a Blackfoot chief, would dare to love. It is this magnificent spirit that Guthrie celebrates with his vivid storytelling--the glory of the bigness, the wildness, the freedom and undying dream of the West.

The Big Sky

Children's Books

BANTAM BOOKS

Wild Pitch

A Montana sheriff and a seventeen-year-old boy acting as an amateur detective hunt for clues to the identity of a sniper

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The Big It

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