Sin Killer (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Larry McMurtry
- First Published: 2002
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: 1832
- Setting: The Missouri River and Great Plains in the Louisiana Purchase
- Principal Characters: Tasmin Berrybender, Lord Albany Berrybender, Jim Snow, George Catlin, Hairy Horn, Big White, Blue Thunder, Mary Berrybender, Bobbety Berrybender, Buffum Berrybender, Seven Berrybender, Ten Berrybender, Gladwyn, Fraulein Pfretzskaner, Old Gorska, Captain George Aitken
- Genres: Long fiction, Adventure, Western fiction
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Traveling or travelers, Mythology or myths, Nature, Nineteenth century, West, U.S., Immigration or emigration, England or English people, Rivers or waterways, Conquest, Hunting or hunters, Morality or morals, Bison or buffalo, Frontier or pioneer life, Land settlement, Exploration or explorers, Wildlife, Shooting
- Locales: Midwest (U.S.)
Larry McMurtry has the fully justified reputation of being one of the most well-read of contemporary American authors, a certified bibliophile whose Booked Up bookstores in Archer, Texas, are marvels of the second-hand book trade. It seems therefore quite likely that an important historical source for many of the details of river travel, tribes observed, weather, and geography in Sin Killer (McMurtry’s thirtieth book) is Travels in the Interior of North America, 1832- 1834, written by Prince Maximilian Alexander Philipp of Wied (1782-1867) and published between 1839 and...
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