Glendon Swarthout

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1) The homesman

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1 videodisc (122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

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English

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When three women living on the edge of the American frontier are driven mad by harsh pioneer life, the task of saving them falls to the pious, independent-minded Mary Bee Cuddy. Transporting the women by covered wagon to Iowa, she soon realizes just how daunting the journey will be, and employs a low-life drifter, George Briggs to join her.

2) The homesman

Author

Swarthout, Glendon

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239 pages ; 22 cm

Language

English

3) Bless the beasts & children

Author

Swarthout, Glendon

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xxiv, 160 pages ; 22 cm

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English

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The neglected attendees of the Box Canyon Boys Camp find their lives turned around by Cotton, who, in a hot-wired pickup, challenges them to join efforts to save a herd of buffalo and discover themselves in the process.

4) The last shootist

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Swarthout, Miles Hood

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350 pages ; 22 cm

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English

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Young Gillom Rogers has just given the coup de grace to a famous gunfighter involved in a bloody saloon shootout in 1901 El Paso, Texas. After swiping J.B. Books's matched Remington pistols off his body, Gillom thinks he may be able to ride this spectacle to fame and glory as the last shootist. But Gillom is an eighteen-year-old with lots of growing up to do, and showing off his new pistols quickly gets him into a gunfight he didn't bargain for. Following...