During the summertime, when my grandfather was alive, we normally ate on his back porch, which overlooked the lake bellow us. I remember one after-dinner discussion: He confessed that he himself had tried his hand at a few short stories before he became an attorney. He said he wrote “westerns,” ...
A classic portrait of America's vast frontier that inspired the Western genre in fiction.Originally published more than fifty years ago, 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:...
"Fair Land, Fair Land" is the third book in Guthrie's 'Big Sky' series. It's short in length, but not in pleasure. This has been by far the most enjoyable of Guthrie's work. 'Fair Land' picks up the story of Dick Summers immediately at the conclusion of 'The Way West', and follows it to completio...