Huck out west
by Coover, Robert
Series: Wheeler Publishing large print western Edition statement:Large print edition. Published by : Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning (Waterville, Maine) Physical details: 453 pages (large print) ; 22 cm. ISBN:9781410497277 (large print : softcover); 1410497275 (large print : softcover).| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode |
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"A novel"--Cover.
As "wrote by Huck," the boys escape "civilization" and "light out for the Territory, riding for the famous but short-lived Pony Express, then working as scouts for both sides in the war. They are suddenly separated when Tom decides he'd rather own civilization than leave it, returning east with his new wife, Becky Thatcher, to learn the law from her father. Huck, abandoned and "dreadful lonely," hires himself out to "whosoever." He rides shotgun on coaches, wrangles horses on a Chisholm Trail cattle drive, joins a gang of bandits, guides wagon trains, gets dragged into U.S. Army massacres, and suffers a series of romantic and barroom misadventures. He is eventually drawn into a Lakota tribe by a young brave, Eeteh, an inventive teller of Coyote tales who "was having about the same kind of trouble with his tribe as I was having with mine." There is an Army colonel who wants to hang Huck and destroy Eeteh's tribe, so they're both on the run, finding themselves ultimately in the Black Hills just ahead of the 1876 Gold Rush.
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