
The Searchers
Alan Le May
1954

John Williams · 1960
256 pages
Books like “Butcher's Crossing”William Andrews leaves Harvard for a frontier town in Kansas, hoping to see the West for himself. He joins an old buffalo hunter on an expedition into Colorado, where the work becomes a brutal test of endurance and the hunters' ambitions strip the land bare.
Wild West, Coming of Age, Survival, Quest, Morally Grey Character
Content warnings: animal death, graphic violence