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Originally published more than fifty years ago, THE BIG SKY is the first of A. B. Guthrie, Jr.'s, epic adventure novels of America's vast frontier. THE BIG SKY introduces Boone Caudill, Jim Deakins, and Dick Summers, three of the most memorable characters in Western American literature.... read more
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Characters edit
- Boone Caudill: A young boy growing up in kentucky. Son to an alcoholic father.
- Jim Deakins: Add a description of this character.
- Teal Eye
- Dick Summers
First Sentence edit
SERENA CAUDILL heard a step outside and then the squeak of the cabin door and knew that John was coming in.
Authors & Contributors edit
- A. B. Guthrie, Jr. (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: William Sloane associates
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1947
ISBN: N/A
Page Count: 386
Publisher: William Sloane associates
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1947
ISBN: N/A
Page Count: 386
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: PS3513.U855 B53 1947
- Dewey: 813.54
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Links to Supplemental Material edit
- Wikipedia Article: The Big Sky is a 1947 Western novel by A. B. Guthrie, Jr.. For Wallace Stegner it is "the best" of the six novels in Guthrie's sequence dealing with the Oregon Trail and the development of Montana from 1830, the time of the Mountain Men, to "the cattle empire of the 1880s to the near present." The first three books of the six in the chronological sequence (but not in the sequence of publishing) -- The Big Sky, The Way West, and Fair Land, Fair Land -- are in themselves a complete trilogy, starting in 1830 and ending with the death of Boone Caudill and later the death of Dick Summers in the 1870s.
Movie Connections edit
- The Big Sky (1952) (IMDb): Staring Kirk Douglas
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