ISBN: Ostalo
Godina izdanja: 1956
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Milton Lott - The Last Hunt
Pocket Books, 1956
358 str.
meki povez
stanje: dobro
Cardinal C Series 203

This is a novel about the buffalo hunters and of the herds they wiped out. Sandy MacKenzie was one of them. For him killing buffalo was a living. He respected the shaggy beasts and felt their annihilation as a loss to the country. It wasn`t easy for him, but he could forge another, a better life. But for his shooting partner, Charlie Gilson, massacring buffalo meant self-respect. Killing was a fever. Even in the good days, when they were milling herds to shoot down every day, Charlie and Sandy fought about their work, the land they ranged, and Charlie`s Indian woman. After the buffalo thinned out, the tension heightened, and a showdown was bound to come.

The Last Hunt...deals with the critical, brutal chapter of Western history in which the buffalo hunters wiped out the buffalo and revolutionized the West.` Its two chief characters are white hunters: partners whose business was slaughter, men fated to clash in violence.
Here is the heroic West at a moment of critical change, a West recreated in words as lean and hard as the men who lived there. Fainthearted readers may call its episodes `raw, but no reader will fail to be gripped by the primitive struggle of men against an enduring setting of mountains and plains. Every reader will be touched by scenes like the crib girl`s Christmas party or McKenzie`s rescue of Gilson`s Indian mistress, or the weird killing of the great white buffalo. And most of all by the last hunt!

Cover painting by Clark Malings


Fiction, Adventure, Westerns