Boone's Lick
(Audio Cassette)

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New York : Simon & Schuster Audio, p2000.
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6 sound cassettes (ca. 7 hr.) : analog, Dolby processed.
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Published
New York : Simon & Schuster Audio, p2000.
Format
Audio Cassette
Language
English
UPC
978074310240

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Subtitle from container.
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Unabridged.
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Read by Will Patton.
Description
Boone's Lick transports the reader to the era about which McMurtry writes better and more shrewdly than anyone else. Told with McMurtry's unique blend of historical fact and sheer storytelling genius, the novel follows the Cecil family's arduous journey by riverboat and wagon from Boone's Lick, Missouri, to Fort Phil Kearny in Wyoming. Fifteen-year-old Shay narrates, describing the journey that begins when his Ma, Mary Margaret, decides to hunt down her elusive husband, Dick, to tell him she's leaving him. Without knowing precisely where he is, they set out across the plains in search of him, encountering grizzly bears, stormy weather, and hostile Indians as they go. With them are Shay's siblings, G.T., Neva, and baby Marcy; Shay's uncle, Seth; his Granpa Crackenthorpe; and Mary Margaret's beautiful half-sister, Rose. During their journey they pick up a barefooted priest named Father Villy, and a Snake Indian named Charlie Seven Days, and persuade them to join in their travels. At the heart of the novel, and the adventure, is Mary Margaret, whom we first meet shooting a sheriff's horse out from underneath him in order to feed her family. Forceful, interesting, and determined, she is written with McMurtry's trademark deftness and sympathy for women, and is in every way a match for the worst the west can muster. Boone's Lick abounds with the incidents, the excitements, and the dangers of life on the plains. Its huge cast of characters includes such historical figures as Wild Bill Hickok and the unfortunate Colonel Fetterman (whose arrogance and ineptitude led to one of the U.S. Army's worst and bloodiest defeats at the hands of the Cheyenne and Sioux) as well as the Cecil family (itself based on a real family of nineteenth-century traders and haulers). The story of their trek in pursuit of Dick, and the discovery of his second and third families, is told with brilliance, humor, and overwhelming joie de vivre in a novel that is at once high adventure, a perfect western tale, and a moving love story -- it is, in short, vintage McMurtry, combining his brilliant character portraits, his unerring sense of the west, and his unrivaled eye for the telling detail. Boone's Lick is one of McMurtry's richest works of fiction to date.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

McMurtry, L., & Patton, W. (2000). Boone's Lick . Simon & Schuster Audio.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

McMurtry, Larry and Will. Patton. 2000. Boone's Lick. Simon & Schuster Audio.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

McMurtry, Larry and Will. Patton. Boone's Lick Simon & Schuster Audio, 2000.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

McMurtry, Larry., and Will Patton. Boone's Lick Simon & Schuster Audio, 2000.

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