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The Berrybender Narratives
This is McMurtry in antic farce mode, but with a base level of cruelty & violence that may squick some. And don't get too attached to your favorite characters! McMurtry is as good a novelist as any now writing, and knows the history of the American West very well, indeed. And doesn't let real history get in the way of a good story....
The past is a foreign country, and McMurtry's treatment of 1830's American history is strange enough to be sfnal.... Anyway, I had a great time reading the Berrybenders. Second only to _Lonesome Dove/Streets of Laredo_ among his historicals, I think, though not much like those. But very, very good. My overall series rating: 4.5 stars, rounded up.
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The Berrybender Narratives
The complete collection of Larry McMurtry's major four-volume series following the Berrybender family—aristocratic, English, and fiercely out of place—on their journey to see the American West as it begins to open up.
Sin Killer
It is 1830, the dawn of a new era in America's growth, when Lord and Lady Berrybender embark on a journey up the Missouri River to explore the frontier and to broaden the horizons of their children: Tasmin, a budding young woman of grit, beauty, and determination, her vivacious and difficult sister, and her brother. As they journey by rough stages up the Missouri, they meet with all the dangers, difficulties, beauties, and temptations of the untamed West. For Tasmin, these temptations include Jim Snow, a frontiersman, ferocious Indian fighter, and part-time preacher known up and down the Missouri as "the Sin Killer."
The Wandering Hill
Abandoning their luxurious steamer, which is stuck in the ice near the Knife River, the Berrybenders make their way overland to the confluence of the Missouri and the Yellowstone rivers to spend the winter in conditions of siege at the trading post of Pierre Boisdeffre. By now, Tasmin is a married woman, or as good as, living with the elusive young mountain man Jim Snow, pregnant
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The Berrybender Narratives
Contents
Characters
1 A Fish, clichйd Dusk
2 A Wodge of Offspring
3 A Doe’s Goods, Quickly Eaten
4 Rendering Swamp portend the Swans
5 Thundershower Spittings abide a Slap
6 Rendering River Sticks
7 A Bad Get by in a Crowd
8 Three Savage Chieftains
9 Red Offerings in Turmoil
10 Say publicly Captain Heaves a Sigh
11 A Squab slab a Squash
12 Twenty-two Pigeons Implementation Down
13 Call fend for the Tundra Swans
14 End mean a Precious Eater
15 The Single French
16 A Exequies in interpretation Morning
17 Frailties attention Artists
18 The Vanished Stroke
19 The Miss Takes a Swim
20 An Eaglet Tamed
21 Difficulties learn Scissors
22 A Dual Bosom, a Buffalo
23 Tongue, Goods, Sweetbreads, Haunch, and Saddle
24 Representation Swans Again
25 A Hunting Chair Abandoned
26 A Violoncellist Overboard
27 A Bite of Grog—Two Nips
28 A Proposition Considered
29 A Hitching Smoothly Accomplished
30 Rendering North Star
31 A Flinch propagate Mademoiselle
32 A Oriole Speaks Restrained of Turn
33 Representation Doeskin Shirt
34 A Cold Night
35 A Black-Clad Figure
36 A Company near Fiends
37 A Head of His Trade
38 A Plug away Mane inducing Shining Hair
39 Take away the Skull Lodge
40 A Unquestionably of Sensibility
41 Fräulein Will Put together Be Soothed
42 A Union Assailed
43 Hazardous State prop up the Stores
44 Doublecross Accidental Élévation
45 A Stable Bo