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The Wandering Hill by Larry McMurtry (2003, Hardcover)

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InThe Wandering Hill,Larry McMurtry continues the story of Tasmin Berrybender and her family in the still unexplored Wild West of the 1830s, at the point in time when the Mountain Men and trappers like Jim Bridger and Kit Carson (both lively characters in the book), though still alive, are already legendary figures, when the journey of Lewis and Clark is still a living memory, while the painter George Catlin is at work capturing the Mandan tribes just before they are eliminated by the incursion of the white man and smallpox, and when the clash between the powerful Indian tribes of the Missouri and the encroaching white Americans is about to turn into full-blown tragedy.Amidst all this, the Berrybender family -- English, eccentric, wealthy, and fiercely out of place -- continues its journey of exploration, although beset by difficulties, tragedies, the desertion of trusted servants, and the increasing hardships of day-to-day survival in a land where nothing can be taken for granted.Abandoning their luxurious steamer, which is stuck in the ice near the Knife River, they make their way overland to the confluence of the Missouri and the Yellowstone, to spend the winter in conditions of siege at the trading post of Pierre Boisdeffre, right smack in what is, from their point of view, the middle of nowhere. By now, Tasmin is a married woman, or as good as, and about to be a mother, living with the elusive young mountain man Jim Snow (The Sin Killer), and not only going to have his child, but to discover that he has a whole other Indian family he hasn't told her about.On his part, Jim is about to discover that in taking the outspoken, tough-minded, stubbornly practical young aristocratic woman into his teepee he has bitten off more than he can chew -- Tasmin doesn't hesitate to answer back, use the name of the Lord in vain, and strike out, though she is taken aback when the quiet Jim actually strikes her.Still, theirs is a great love affair, lived out in conditions of great risk, and dominates this volume of Larry McMurtry's Berrybender Narratives, in which Tasmin gradually takes center stage as her father loses his strength and powers of concentration, and her family goes to pieces stranded in the hostile wilderness, surrounded by interesting savages with ideas of their own and mountain men who are all of the "strong, silent type" of later Western legend, and hardly less savage than the Indians.From the murder of the iced-in steamship's crew to the appearance of the Partezon, a particularly blood-thirsty Sioux warrior with a band of over two hundred followers (the Partezon thoughtfully buries one of Lord Berrybender's servants alive in a gutted buffalo, ordering his feet and hands to be chopped off so he will fit into the body cavity, to see if the man can get out),The Wandering Hill(which refers to a powerful and threatening legend in local Indian folklore) is at once literature on a grand scale and riveting entertainment by a master storyteller.

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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
ISBN-10
0743233034
ISBN-13
9780743233033
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2336409

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Book Title
Wandering Hill
Author
Larry McMurtry
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Contemporary Women, General, Westerns, Historical
Publication Year
2003
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
320 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
9.2in
Item Height
1.2in
Item Width
6.2in
Item Weight
19.5 Oz

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Lc Classification Number
Ps3563.A319w36 2003
Reviews
New York Times Book Review Exquisite descriptions....Simply irresistible storytelling, rich and satisfying., New York Times Book ReviewExquisite descriptions....Simply irresistible storytelling, rich and satisfying.
Copyright Date
2003
Lccn
2002-030595
Dewey Decimal
813/.54
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes

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item 1 The Wandering Hill Larry McMurtry 2003 Simon & Schuster Hardcover w/Jk Brand New
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item 2 Larry McMurtry SIGNED AUTOGRAPHED The Wandering Hill HC 1st Ed/1st Lonesome Dove
AU $383.66
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Best book since Lomesone Dove
I might be somewhat bias on any Larry McMurtry but I feel the series of the English family that comes to America to seek adventure is one of his best writing story's! The series would be an excellent TV series coming after Lonesome Dove. Take the time especially in the cold weather and snuggle up to a nice fire and step back in time, it will be the best time for little money you spend to buy the book.

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