- Cowboys, Fiction, Frontier and pioneer life, Children's fiction
After being forced from his meager family farm in Texas in 1871, thirteen-year-old Ben Curtis witnesses some of the excitement and cruelty of the Old West--on a cattle drive, in a frontier town, and on a buffalo hunt.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and unpretentious.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- effortlessdemanding
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- Author
- Peter Carter, Peter Carter
- First published
- 1990
- Pages
- 423
- Publisher
- Farrar Straus Giroux
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780374308957
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