Buffalo Girls (Magill Book Reviews)
At a glance:
- Author: Larry McMurtry
- First Published: 1990
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Historical fiction
- Subjects: Murder or homicide, Gender roles, West, U.S., Alcoholism or alcoholics, Substance abuse, Native Americans or American Indians, Legends, Heroes or heroism, Hunting or hunters, Animals, Zoos, Beavers
- Locales: London, England, South Dakota, Montana
BUFFALO GIRLS is another fine novel that expresses McMurtry’s love for the American West. He has been equally successful in rendering the West as it was and the West as it has become. McMurtry is a wonderful storyteller, and the West has many wonderful stories that cry out to be told. The mythic certainly plays an important role in how the West—and the characters who inhabited it—should be viewed. In BUFFALO GIRLS, McMurtry takes the opportunity to present Calamity Jane and a curious assortment of character types who always seem to show up in McMurtry’s novels. Although he makes...
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