Critical Essay by J. M. Lalley
If it were possible to have a novel that was the result of a collaboration by Ned Buntline, James T. Farrell, and Donn Byrne, it would, I suspect, be rather like ...
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Critical Essay by Richard H. Cracroft
[The Big Sky] owes much of its convincing authenticity not only to Guthrie's use of historical sources, but to the imaginative manner in which he wove the...
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Critical Essay by Levi S. Peterson
The Big Sky strikes me as a more successful tragedy and one more central to the Western mind [than Walter Van Tilburg Clark's The Ox-Bow Incident]. It posses...
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Critical Essay by John R. Milton
[In The Big Sky] Guthrie's mountain men are entirely fictional, and because there are three of them interacting with each other as well as with the wilderness ...
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Critical Essay by Dorothy Canfield Fisher
["The Big Sky" is a] monument of a book! One of those monuments made out of rough boulders, native to the spot, rolled together to serve as a p...
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Critical Essay by Joseph Kinsey Howard
"The Big Sky" is an authentic and exciting novel about the mountain men and their lonely country. Mr. Guthrie … has poured into his book al...
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Critical Essay by Margaret Marshall
[However well Mr. Guthrie understands the three mountain men who are the principle characters of "The Big Sky"], his rendering of their thoughts and ...
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Critical Essay by Elrick B. Davis
["The Way West"] is the story of the early emigrant trek to Oregon, told nobly and without melodrama. In a way it is a sequel to Mr. Guthrie's r...
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Freshman Austin Daye scored 20 points and grabbed 10 rebounds to help No. 14 Gonzaga open its season by beating Montana 77-54 on Sunday.Gonzaga (1-0) largely smothered the Montana offense, and coac...
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Wyoming hired Heath Schroyer as its basketball coach Friday, reuniting him with the man who gave him his last head coaching job.Schroyer comes to Wyoming from Fresno State, where he was associate h...
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Aron Baynes was 9-for-9 from the field and scored 23 points as No. 8 Washington State beat stubborn Portland State 72-60 on Sunday to remain undefeated.The Cougars (9-0) are off to their best start...
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UCLA coach Ben Howland thinks he already saw the worst of Arron Afflalo last week. Afflalo's performance in the first round of the NCAA tournament was among his best _ yet Howland knows the Bruins ...
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Jerry Glanville is ready to run another football team. This time, the former NFL coach is taking over at Portland State _ vowing to turn the Vikings into the "hardest hitting football team on the W...
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There was never any hint of jealousy or animosity between the two punters competing for the starting job at Northern Colorado _ at least, that's the way it appeared on the football f...
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Courtney Paris had 20 points and 13 rebounds _ her 37th straight double-double _ and No. 3 Oklahoma set a school record for defensive prowess in an 82-36 victory over Northern Colorado on Sunday.Th...
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One year after a last-place finish, David Patten was being carried off the court by Weber State fans. Patten, the league's MVP, scored a team-high 22 points Wednesday night, leading the Wildcats to...
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Idaho State used a fast-paced game and a late flurry of 3-pointers to defeat Northern Arizona 84-78 Saturday night in the Big Sky Conference championship."I thought we got off to a great start from...
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Critical Essay by J. M. Lalley
Freshman Daye scores 20 as Gonzaga wins
