The Big Sky A Novel
The Big Sky A Novel by Alfred Bertram Guthrie, published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in 2002, is a significant work that explores America’s vast frontier. This edition spans 386 pages and is presented in English. The narrative follows Boone Caudill, Jim Deakins, and Dick Summers as they journey along the Missouri River to the Rockies, embodying the spirit of trappers, traders, guides, and explorers in the American West.
Readers will encounter a rich depiction of the wilderness and the lives of frontiersmen, particularly focusing on Caudill, a young Kentuckian with a deep yearning for adventure and connection to the land. The story delves into themes of freedom and survival, highlighting the relationships formed in this rugged landscape, including Caudill’s bond with the daughter of a Blackfoot chief. The Big Sky serves as a foundational piece in the Western genre, offering insights into historical and literary elements of the time.
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From Pulitzer Prize-winning author A. B. Guthrie, Jr., The Big Sky is a classic portrait of America’s vast frontier that inspired the Western genre in fiction.
The Best Novel of the American West
as chosen by members of the Western Literature Association
The Big Sky is the first of A. B. Guthrie Jr.’s epic adventure novels set in the American West. Here he introduces Boone Caudill, Jim Deakins, and Dick Summers: traveling the Missouri River from St. Louis to the Rockies, these frontiersmen live as trappers, traders, guides, and explorers.
Caudill is a young Kentuckian driven by a raging hunger for life, longing for the blue sky and brown earth of big, wild places. Caught up in the freedom and savagery of the wilderness, he becomes an untamed mountain man, whom only the beautiful daughter of a Blackfoot chief dares to love.
With The Big Sky, Guthrie presents an unforgettable portrait of a spacious land and a unique way of lie.
Foreword by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Wallace Stegner
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