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Title	:	Butcher's Crossing
Author	:	John Williams
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 274 pages
Published	:	January 16th 2007 by NYRB Classics (first published 1960)
Categories	:	Fiction. Westerns. Historical. Historical Fiction. Classics. Novels. Literature. American

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In his National Book Award–winning novel Augustus, John Williams uncovered the secrets of ancient Rome. With Butcher’s Crossing, his fiercely intelligent, beautifully written western, Williams dismantles the myths of modern America. It is the 1870s, and Will Andrews, fired up by Emerson to seek “an original relation to nature,” drops out of Harvard and heads west. He washes up in Butcher’s Crossing, a small Kansas town on the outskirts of nowhere. Butcher’s Crossing is full of restless men looking for ways to make money and ways to waste it. Before long Andrews strikes up a friendship with one of them, a man who regales Andrews with tales of immense herds of buffalo, ready for the taking, hidden away in a beautiful valley deep in the Colorado Rockies. He convinces Andrews to join in an expedition to track the animals down. The journey out is grueling, but at the end is a place of paradisal richness. Once there, however, the three men abandon themselves to an orgy of slaughter, so caught up in killing buffalo that they lose all sense of time. Winter soon overtakes them: they are snowed in. Next spring, half-insane with cabin fever, cold, and hunger, they stagger back to Butcher’s Crossing to find a world as irremediably changed as they have been.

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Original Title:	Butcher's Crossing
ISBN:	1590171985 (ISBN13: 9781590171981)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Butchers' Crossing, Kansas(United States)

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One of the joys of reading chaotically, picking up books from the TBR stack at the whim of the moment and not according to some master plan, is to discover that succesive reads turn out to be related after all. The Great Gatsby is concerned with the Great American Dream - that success is waiting right around the corner for anyone determined enough to reach for it. Butcher's Crossing is about another facet of the Great American Dream, the myth of the pristine land, a Garden of Eden where Man

Why read a historical novel about a privileged Harvard dropout who wants to find himself by going on a buffalo hunt? 1. It's by John Williams, who wrote one of my three favourite novels, Stoner, which I reviewed HERE, as well as his masterpiece, Augustus, which I reviewed HERE.2. Hunting is not what it's really about (probably like Moby Dick?).3. It was a good follow-on from Cold Mountain, which I reviewed HERE: two totally different US landscape-based stories, set only a few years apart.What

Penned in 1960, John Williams' BUTCHER'S CROSSING anticipates and in many ways eclipses Cormac McCarthy's western works because it not only nails the rapacious greed of the buffalo hunters it describes, it reaches for more abstract and troubling themes that go to the very essence of man and his place in the world.Will Andrews, the protagonist, is but a 23-year-old preacher's son when he shows up in Butcher's Crossing with money and a dream in hand. He winds up payrolling a buffalo hunt to a

Williams biggest achievement in this novel is that there isnt an ounce of overblown characterization in the diverging life perspectives that populate Butcher's Crossing, an emerging town in the Great Plains of the old west. In spite of the bison hunters, the dusty brothel with the purring prostitute, the inexperienced city boy Will Andrews from Boston, and the drunkard who nurses his whiskey with a mucky Bible and prayerful gibberish, this is not the predictable Western the reader might

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Andrews dropped to his hands and knees and swung his head from side to side like a wounded animal. My God! he said thickly, My God, my God. A whole winters work, Miller said in a flat dead voice. It took just about two minutes. Andrews raised his head wildly, and got to his feet. Schneider, he said. Schneider. Weve got to- Miller put his hand on his shoulder. Take it easy, boy. Wont do no good to worry about Schneider. I went to bed last night still thinking about this remarkable book. I put

I started this book thinking I was getting into an adventure/survivalist tale of buffalo hunters in the old west. I turned the last page knowing that, instead, it was an epic tragedy. If you can read this book without having your stomach turned at the senseless slaughter of these animals, you're a stronger person than I am. "A long, narrow valley, flat as the top of a table, wound among the mountains. Lush grass grew on the bed of the valley, and waved gently in the breeze as far as the eye