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Alfred Bertram Guthrie, Jr., is best known for his writing about the American West. His three most famous novels--sometimes referred to together as a trilogy--cover the eventful decades between 1830 a...
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In 1991, the year of his death, A. B. Guthrie Jr. received the tribute of having his first major novel, The Big Sky (1947), chosen as the best novel of the American West in a poll of the members of th...
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Critical Essay by Richard Bradford
There is sentiment, there is indeed a bushel of corn, in "Arfive," and a sadness in seeing the wilderness harnessed and gentled. One scene, infinitely ...
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Critical Essay by L. J. Davis
To get to the point at once, with a bluntness that I hope contains an element of mercy; The Last Valley, A. B. Guthrie's fifth and, he says, probably final novel a...
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Critical Essay by Robert F. Gish
For Guthrie the western novel has outlived its time, and like the gunfighter the western author perhaps will fade into the sunset never to slap ink to paper again. For...
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Critical Essay by Thomas W. Ford
[The one unfailing link that joins The Big Sky, The Way West, These Thousand Hills, Arfive and The Lost Valley] is Guthrie's insistent use of the Western landsc...
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Critical Essay by Robert Gorham Davis
Even more successfully than its predecessor, "The Big Sky." Mr. Guthrie's ["The Way West"] repossesses the past and gives a sen...
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Critical Essay by Carl Carmer
The author of "The Big Sky" and "The Way West" assumed much greater difficulties than either of those admirable books presented to him when he...
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Critical Essay by Walter Van Tilburg Clark
Like Mr. Guthrie's two previous volumes, "The Big Sky," a magnificently pictorial account of the mountain-man era, and the steadily movi...
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Critical Essay by William Eastlake
One of the finest collections of short stories in recent years is A. B. Guthrie, Jr.'s "The Big It." This excellent book is not an assortment of...
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Critical Essay by Richard Bradford
