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 The Big Sky is a 1947 Western novel by A. B. Guthrie, Jr. and a 1952 film directed by Howard Hawks. The cast includes Kirk Douglas, Arthur Hunnicutt, Dewey Martin and Jim... 
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 The Boston Globe Big drama in Big Sky Country
06/03/1996: 822 words, approx. 3 pages BUCKING THE SUN By Ivan Doig Simon & Schuster, 412 pp., $23 Montana was once mainly famous as Big Sky Country, but lately, what with accused mad bombers in its rugged hills, holed-up antigovernment ranchers defying the law and reclusive movie stars, it has... summary from source:
The Washington Post Under the Big Sky
01/30/1994: 1,085 words, approx. 4 pages KAYAKING THE FULL MOON A Journey Down the Yellowstone River To the Soul of Montana By Steve Chapple HarperCollins. 273 pp. $23 INDIAN TIME A Year of Discovery Among the Native Americans of the Southwest By... summary from source:
 AP News Freshman Daye scores 20 as Gonzaga wins
11/12/2007: 342 words, approx. 1 pagesFreshman 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 coach Mark Few was able to give plenty of minutes to his bench players.Montana... summary from source:
AP News Wyoming names Schroyer basketball coach
3/23/2007: 481 words, approx. 2 pagesWyoming 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 head coach for two years. Before that, Schroyer was head coach at Portland...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by John R. Milton
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[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 it is possible for Guthrie to include all of the characteristics which, taken together, could make up the typical or representative mountain man, "that mixture of hardihood, dissipation, heroism, brute action, innocence and sin." Guthrie shuns romanticism, preferring a kind of dramatic reportage told in language which is clean, in... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Levi S. Peterson
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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 possesses, like Clark's novel, the ring of tough-minded realism that the twentieth century has come to relish. It has, as well, the flavor of full authenticity in its reconstruction of the life of the mountain man between 1830 and 1843. But unobtrusively entered among the undisputably authentic details of the mountain man's external life ... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Richard H. Cracroft
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[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 texture of his design to recreate a region which "is not oppressed," wrote the Reverend Samuel Parker, "by the tyranny of religion," nor "awed by the frown of virtue." And this imaginative excellence in interpolating a vivid fiction from historical fact in turn owes much to Guthrie's own longstanding...
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