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:...
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,” ...