The Resource Savage country, a novel by Robert Olmstead
Savage country, a novel by Robert Olmstead
- Summary
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- "A bankrupt widow embarks on a buffalo hunt in 1873 to try to save her late husband's land, and encounters multiple dangers along the way"--
- September 1873. Elizabeth Coughlin, a widow bankrupted by her husband's folly and death, embarks on a buffalo hunt with her estranged brother-in-law, Michael. She hopes to salvage something of her former life and the lives of the hired men and their families who depend on her. The buffalo hunt that her husband had planned, she now realizes, was his last hope for saving their land. As they ride across the Deadline demarcating Indian Territory from their home state, Kansas, they're on borrowed time: the Comanche are in winter quarters, and the cruel work of slaughtering the buffalo is unraveling their souls
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 293 pages
- Isbn
- 9781616204129
- Label
- Savage country
- Title
- Savage country
- Statement of responsibility
- a novel by Robert Olmstead
- Language
- eng
- Summary
-
- "A bankrupt widow embarks on a buffalo hunt in 1873 to try to save her late husband's land, and encounters multiple dangers along the way"--
- September 1873. Elizabeth Coughlin, a widow bankrupted by her husband's folly and death, embarks on a buffalo hunt with her estranged brother-in-law, Michael. She hopes to salvage something of her former life and the lives of the hired men and their families who depend on her. The buffalo hunt that her husband had planned, she now realizes, was his last hope for saving their land. As they ride across the Deadline demarcating Indian Territory from their home state, Kansas, they're on borrowed time: the Comanche are in winter quarters, and the cruel work of slaughtering the buffalo is unraveling their souls
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- Title
- Savage country
- Summary
- To pay off her late husband's debts and save the family ranch, widow Elizabeth Coughlin organizes a bison-hunting expedition in Comanche territory, enlisting her brother-in-law, Michael, to help. What follows is a dramatic story of survival in a harsh and inhospitable landscape. In spare prose that does not shy away from depicting the harsh realities of 1870s frontier life, Savage Country vividly recreates the Great Plains during the period of America's Westward Expansion. Fans of Lin Enger's The High Divide will enjoy this literary Western. -- Description by Gillian Speace
- Subject
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- Literary fiction
- Hunting
- Brothers-in-law
- Westerns
- The West (United States) -- History -- 19th century
- Interpersonal relations
- Great Plains (United States) -- History -- 19th century
- Comanche Indians
- Widows
- Courage in women
- American bison hunting
- Debt
- Wilderness survival
- American bison
- Hides and skins
- Frontier and pioneer life
- Award
- Booklist Editors' Choice, 2017.
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10576374
- Cataloging source
- CoCr/DLC
- Dewey number
- 813/.54
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3565.L67
- LC item number
- S38 2017
- Literary form
- fiction
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- adult
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- a novel by Robert Olmstead
- Label
- Savage country, a novel by Robert Olmstead
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- Interpersonal relations
- History
- American bison
- Hides and skins
- Fiction.
- Westerns
- Literary fiction
- Brothers-in-law
- Great Plains
- Courage in women
- Widows
- The West (United States)
- Debt
- Survival
- American bison hunting
- Western fiction
- Great Plains (United States)
- Historical fiction
- Frontier and pioneer life
- 19th century
- Wilderness survival
- Hunting
- Comanche Indians
- Related Subjects
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- Literary fiction
- Historical fiction
- Survival -- Fiction.
- Hunting
- Brothers-in-law
- Westerns
- The West (United States) -- History -- 19th century
- Interpersonal relations
- Great Plains (United States) -- History -- 19th century
- Frontier and pioneer life -- Fiction.
- Comanche Indians
- American bison hunting -- Fiction.
- Widows
- Western fiction
- Courage in women
- American bison hunting
- Debt
- Wilderness survival
- American bison
- Widows -- Fiction.
- Great Plains -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.
- Hides and skins
- Frontier and pioneer life
- Control code
- ocn988749581
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- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- http://library.link/vocab/discovery_link
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- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 293 pages
- Isbn
- 9781616204129
- Isbn Type
- (hc)
- Lccn
- 2017020399
Subject
- American bison hunting -- Fiction.
- Frontier and pioneer life -- Fiction.
- Great Plains -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.
- Historical fiction
- Survival -- Fiction.
- Western fiction
- Widows -- Fiction.
- American bison
- American bison hunting
- Brothers-in-law
- Comanche Indians
- Courage in women
- Debt
- Frontier and pioneer life
- Great Plains (United States) -- History -- 19th century
- Hides and skins
- Hunting
- Interpersonal relations
- Literary fiction
- The West (United States) -- History -- 19th century
- Westerns
- Widows
- Wilderness survival
Genre
Member of
- Best Historical Fiction 2017
- Booklist Editors' Choice - Best Fiction Books: 2017
- Cowpokes & Homesteaders
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- Booklist Editors' Choice, 2017.
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