The Humpherys Family

The Big Sky

Record Added: 3/26/2021
Author 
Setting United States
Topic History: Western Expansio
 History: American Indians
Publisher Houghton Mifflin Company
ISBN B007S0BEDC   Year 1965
Age Adult   Pages 386
Description Printed dustjacket
 
The Big Sky is the first of A.B. Guthrie's epic adventure novels of America's vast frontier. It is a story as great as the land that inspired it, sweeping westward from Kentucky, up the Missouri River into Indian Country. Towering above the novel is Guthrie's unforgettable hero, Boone Caudill, a true mountain man driven by a raging hunger for life and a longing for the blue sky and brown earth of the big, wild places.

A legend before he turns 20, Boone becomes a powerful White Savage, an untamed life force that only one woman, the beautiful daughter of a Blackfoot chief, would dare to love. It is this magnificent spirit that Guthrie celebrates with his vivid storytelling, the glory of the bigness, the wildness, the freedom and undying dream of the West.