· SAVAGE COUNTRY. Hunting the last of the buffalo. “For weeks countless swarms of locusts, brown-black and brick-yellow, darkened the air like ash from a great conflagration, their jaws biting all things for what could be eaten.”. This sentence appears on the first page of the novel. In Savage Country, Robert Olmstead speaks to the American myths, legends, and ethos that originated with the Pilgrims and early settlers, was tested in the Civil War, and arrived at its last frontier with the expansion and settlements beyond the Mississippi River. The plot of Olmstead's work is as simple as its theme is complex. Bracing, direct, and quintessentially American, Olmstead’s gripping narrative follows that infamous hunt, which drove the buffalo to near extinction. Savage Country is the story of a moment in our history in which mass destruction of an animal population was seen as a road to economic salvation.4/5(3).
© Robert Olmstead (P) HighBridge, a Division of Recorded Books. What listeners say about Savage Country Average Customer Ratings. Overall. out of 5 stars out of 5 Stars 10 4 Stars 6 3 Stars 3 2 Stars 0 1 Stars 0. SAVAGE COUNTRY is the story of a moment in our history in which mass destruction of an animal population was seen as a road to economic salvation. But it's also the intimate story of how that hunt changed Michael and Elizabeth forever. Savage Country by Robert Olmstead. Publication Date: September 4, ; Genres: Fiction, Historical Fiction. Savage Country is an unforgettable, unflinching, yet distinctly moving story of human greed and desire.". "Like so many outstanding novels about the taming of the West, there is a tragic ambiguity at the heart of Olmstead's brutal but beautiful tale of the last buffalo hunt. For a certain kind of uncompromising yet lyrical writer.
Savage Country: A Novel by Robert Olmstead Onto this broken Western stage rides Michael Coughlin, a Civil War veteran with an enigmatic past, come to town to settle his dead brother's debt. Together with his widowed sister-in-law, Elizabeth, bankrupted by her husband's folly and death, they embark on a massive, and hugely dangerous, buffalo hunt. SAVAGE COUNTRY. Hunting the last of the buffalo. “For weeks countless swarms of locusts, brown-black and brick-yellow, darkened the air like ash from a great conflagration, their jaws biting all things for what could be eaten.”. This sentence appears on the first page of the novel. SAVAGE COUNTRY By Robert Olmstead pp. Algonquin. $ Robert Olmstead’s seventh novel is set in the reddening dusk of s Indian Territory, where lives were often unmoored by any.
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