Boone's Lick is Pulitzer Prize-winning author Larry McMurtry's triumphant return to the kind of story that made him famous -- an enthralling tale of the nineteenth-century West. It's the story of the Cecil family's arduous journey from Boone's Lick, Missouri, to Fort Phil Kearny in Wyoming as Mary Margaret tries to hunt down her elusive husband, Dick, to tell him she's leaving him.
The family encounters grizzly bears, stormy weather and hostile Indians as they go. During their journey they pick up a bare-footed priest named Father Villy, and a Snake Indian named Charlie Seven Days.
Boone's Lick is high adventure, a perfect Western tale, and a moving love story -- combining brilliant character portraits and an unerring sense of the West.
Nobody writes better about the West than Larry McMurtry. In his most ambitious novel since Lonesome Dove, he offers the big novel of Western gunfighters that people have been hoping for years he would write. ~When Nellie Courtright and her brother Jackson are unexpectedly orphaned, they make their way to the nearby town of Rita Blanca. Jackson becomes a sheriff's deputy, while the ever-resourceful Nellie becomes the town's telegrapher. Together, they inadvertently put Rita Blanca on the map when young Jackson succeeds in shooting down all six of the ferocious Yazee brothers in a lucky gunfight that brings him lifelong fame but which he can never repeat. An exciting tale of adventure, romance, and survival; you’ll witness the exploits of Buffalo Bill, Billy the Kid, the Earp brothers, and Doc Holliday.
