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Butcher's Crossing

John Williams · 1960

256 pages

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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.

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Wild West, Coming of Age, Survival, Quest, Morally Grey Character

Content warnings: animal death, graphic violence

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