Anything for Billy (Magill Book Reviews)
At a glance:
- Author: Larry McMurtry
- First Published: 1988
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Western fiction
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Mythology or myths, Nineteenth century, West, U.S., Robbery or robbers, Adventure, New Mexico, Southwest, Cowboys or cowgirls, Texas, Guns
- Locales: New Mexico, Texas
Though already renowned as a fearsome gunfighter, Billy is only seventeen years old and has never yet shot a man when Sippy, a Philadelphia gentleman in his fifties, first meets him, in the wilds of New Mexico. Along with a terse and skillful cowboy named Joe Lovelady, they travel about the late nineteenth century Southwest encountering and dispensing trouble. They wander into the Whiskey Glass War, when old Will Isinglass uses deadly force to clear all outsiders off the three million acres he claims as his. Billy loves and betrays Katie Garza, the hoyden beauty whom Will has begotten...
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