Boone’s Lick (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Larry McMurtry
- First Published: 2000
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: 1866
- Setting: Missouri and the West
- Principal Characters: Mary Margaret Cecil, Dick Cecil, Sherman “Shay” Cecil, George Tecumseh “G. T.” Cecil, Neva Cecil, Seth Cecil, Rosie McGee, Granpa Crackenthorpe, Father Emile Villegagnon, Charlie Seven Days
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Traveling or travelers, Nineteenth century, West, U.S., Missouri
- Locales: Wyoming, Missouri
Boone’s Lick, the twenty-third novel by Larry McMurtry, invites comparisons with other literary pieces, including McMurtry’s classic Lonesome Dove (1985) about the adventures and dangers facing a motley assortment of characters driving cattle from Texas to Montana. In this novel, the characters are even more assorted—a grandfather bordering on the senile, a barefoot French missionary, and a Shoshone guide on a mission for Sacagawea—but the journey is the same as the travelers pick up roots and travel miles away from their point of departure. In Boone’s...
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