Publication

2006-09-26 - Knopf

Language

English

Word Count

88,000 words, Guess

Page Count

352 pages

Physical Format

Hardcover

Identifiers

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  • Library of Congress Control Number2006045157
  • Goodreads62249
  • LibraryThing1331067

Classifications

  • LCCPS3561.I87 W55 2006

Description

After numerous essays, short stories and the heralded memoir A Hole in the Sky, William Kittredge gives us a debut novel that ratifies his standing as a leading writer of the American West.Rossie Benasco's horseback existence begins at age 15 and culminates in a thousand-mile drive of more than 200 head of horses through the Rockies into Calgary. It's a journey that leads him, ultimately, to Eliza Stevenson and a passion so powerful, his previously unfocused life gains clarity and purpose. From the settlers, cowboys, and gamblers who opened up this country to the landholders and politicians who ran it, this is an epic tale of love and wide open spaces that stretches over the grand canvas of the twentieth-century West.From the Trade Paperback edition.

Description

Rossie Benasco, already a veteran cowboy though barely twenty, meets and marries the pregnant daughter of a Scottish rancher in the 1930s who becomes the focus of his life as he runs a farm in Montana, raises a family, joins the Marine Corps during World War II, and becomes involved in politics.

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Other Editions

  • The Willow FieldHardcoverKnopf2006-09-26

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