Description
As the American frontier gives way to settlement and modern life, Calamity Jane looks back on the wild years that made her a legend. Through vivid prose and candid letters to her daughter, the novel brings to life a rough-edged community of trappers, soldiers, cowboys, prostitutes, Native Americans, and larger-than-life frontier figures—including Buffalo Bill’s traveling Wild West show. Their attempts to preserve or reinvent the past reveal the costs of mythmaking, the bonds of friendship and love, and the difficulty of surviving a changing world. Both expansive and intimate, this richly human Western is a poignant meditation on freedom, memory, and the end of an era.
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hardcover
Simon & Schuster
Published Jan 1, 1990
ISBN: 9780685389171
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Details
First Published
1990
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Buffalo Girls by Larry McMurtry.