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Set in a small Montana town during the early years of the twentieth century, it revolves around the conflict and friendship of a newly-hired high school principal and a successful rancher.Tags
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Next to last in a series of moving and settling the west. Male principal moves to small town to set up a school in territory that is barely settled. Excellent
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A. B. Guthrie, Jr., is one of America's most celebrated writers of western literature. He received the 1950 Pulitzer Prize in fiction for "The Way West". Guthrie died in 1991. (Bowker Author Biography)
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- Original publication date
- 1970-11
- People/Characters
- Benton Collingsworth; Mort Ewing
- Important places
- Montana, USA
- Dedication
- To Carol, my wife, and Janie, my sister, for their needed faith and encouragement and, bless them, their patience.
- First words
- Benton Collingsworth stepped off the train, turned and helped little Mary Jess down and then gave a hand to May, who was carrying Tommie.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)"Crucified Jesus!"
Classifications
- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction, Historical Fiction
- DDC/MDS
- 813.5 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English 1900-1999
- LCC
- PZ3 .G95876 — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction in English
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- 62
- Popularity
- 500,969
- Reviews
- 1
- Rating
- (3.38)
- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
- 7
- ASINs
- 4
