Bendigo Shafter (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Louis Dearborn LaMoore
- First Published: 1979
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Historical fiction, Adventure, Western fiction
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Cattle, Love or romance, West, U.S., Native Americans or American Indians, Pacific Northwest, Frontier or pioneer life, Land settlement, Oregon Trail, Oregon, Rescue, Wilderness, Wyoming
- Locales: New York, Oregon, Wyoming
Bendigo Shafter seems destined for classic status. This unusually long L’Amour novel has all the necessary ingredients. Bendigo Shafter, the youthful French-Canadian hero and narrator, is eighteen when the action begins, about 1862. In the next year or so, he moves, as do many of L’Amour's heroes, from youth to early manhood and matures as a responsible pioneer, a hunter, a trail boss, a peacemaking friend of Indians, a town marshal, and an author. Trouble takes various forms: violent weather, unpredictably hostile Indians, dangerous rescue missions, the need to build homes...
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