Oct 6, 2008
Alfred Bertram Guthrie, Jr., earned a deserved reputation as an important American novelist, winning both popular and critical acclaim for his major novels that dramatize Western settlement in the Rocky Mountain region.
When Guthrie was six months old, his family moved to Choteau, Montana. From his father, the first principal of the local high school and later publisher of a newspaper, Guthrie learned to respect historical research and to love the spacious beauty of the land, which evoked a sense of freedom. Attracted to writing as a career early in life, Guthrie worked during...
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