The Boston Globe, April 27th, 1991
CHOTEAU, Mont. -- Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist A.B. Guthrie Jr., whose mountain men and settlers showed both the grandeur and the grimness of the Old West, died yesterday. He was 90. Mr. Guthrie was famed chiefly for six historical novels that gave a lusty but unromanticized look at the settling of the American West from 1830 to World War II. The most famous, "The Big Sky," launched his career in 1947, and "The Way West," published in 1949, won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1950. "These Thousand Hills" followed in 1956, and the three are considered Mr. Guthrie's finest works. All three ...
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