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Author:
Olmstead, Robert.
Title:
Savage country [large print] / by Robert Olmstead.
Format:
[large print] /
Edition:
Large print edition.
Publisher:
Thorndike Pressa part of Gale, a Cengage Company,
Copyright Date:
2017
Description:
387 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Subject:
Widows--Fiction.
American bison hunting--Fiction.
Survival--Fiction.
Frontier and pioneer life--Fiction.
Great Plains--History--19th century--Fiction.
Large type books
Summary:
Onto this broken Western stage rides Michael Coughlin, a Civil War veteran with an enigmatic past, come to town to settle his dead brothers debt. Together with his widowed sister-in-law, Elizabeth, bankrupted by her husbands folly and death, they embark on a massive, and hugely dangerous, buffalo hunt. Elizabeth hopes to salvage something of her former life and the lives of the hired men and their families who now depend on her; the buffalo hunt that her husband had planned, she now realizes, was his last hope for saving the land.
Elizabeth and Michael plunge south across the aptly named dead line demarcating Indian Territory from their home state of Kansas. Nothing could have prepared them for the dangers: rattlesnakes, rabies, wildfire, lightning strikes, blue northers, flash floodsand human treachery. With the Comanche in winter quarters, Elizabeth and Michael are on borrowed time, and the cruel work of harvesting the buffalo is unraveling their souls.
Bracing, direct, and quintessentially American, Olmsteads gripping narrative follows that infamous hunt, which drove the buffalo to near extinction. Savage Country is the story of a moment in our history in which mass destruction of an animal population was seen as a road to economic salvation. But its also the intimate story of how that hunt changed Michael and Elizabeth forever.
ISBN:
1432843753
9781432843755
LCCN:
2017034462
Locations:
VXPE964 -- Decorah Public Library (Decorah)
FDPC194 -- Upham Memorial Library (Fredericksburg)
UGPF911 -- Indianola Public Library (Indianola)
YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)
CYPF706 -- Musser Public Library (Muscatine)

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