Rating: 5.00 (1 ratings)
First published 1960
Will Andrews abandons Harvard to seek his fortune in the untamed West. In Butcher's Crossing, Kansas, he joins a rugged expedition to hunt the last great herds of wild buffalo in the Colorado Rockies. As the men become drunk on the thrill of the hunt, the slaughter spirals out of control. Trapped by a brutal winter, they descend into madness before staggering home, changed forever by their brush with nature's raw power.
Genres: american-fiction, historical-fiction, 20th-century, adventure, 19th-century
Vibes: intimate, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: fish-out-of-water, man-vs-nature
Setting: Butcher's Crossing, Kansas, Colorado Rockies
Period: 19th-century
274 pages · Paperback · New York Review Books
Content warnings: violence