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Butcher's Crossing / John Williams ; introduction by Michelle Latiolas.

Butcher's Crossing / John Williams ; introduction by Michelle Latiolas.
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ISBN 9781590171981 (paperback)
Name Williams, John Edwin Ashley, 1919-1944 author.
Title Butcher's Crossing / John Williams ; introduction by Michelle Latiolas.
Published New York : New York Review Books, 2007.
©1960
Description xv, 274 pages ; 21 cm.
Summary It is the 1870s, and Will Andrews, ï¬red up by Emerson to seek 'an original relation to nature,' drops out of Harvard and heads west. He washes up in Butcher's Crossing, a small Kansas town on the outskirts of nowhere. Butcher's Crossing is full of restless men looking for ways to make money and ways to waste it. Before long Andrews strikes up a friendship with one of them, a man who regales Andrews with tales of immense herds of buffalo, ready for the taking, hidden away in a beautiful valley deep in the Colorado Rockies. He convinces Andrews to join in an expedition to track the animals down. The journey out is grueling, but at the end is a place of paradisal richness. Once there, however, the three men abandon themselves to an orgy of slaughter, so caught up in killing buffalo that they lose all sense of time. Winter soon overtakes them: they are snowed in. Next spring, half-insane with cabin fever, cold, and hunger, they stagger back to Butcher's Crossing to ï¬nd a world as irremediably changed as they have been.
Subjects American bison hunting -- Fiction
Western stories
Genre Western fiction
Series New York Review Books classics
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