Originally published more than fifty years ago, THE BIG SKY is the first of A. B. Guthrie, Jr.'s, epic adventure novels of America's vast frontier. THE BIG SKY introduces Boone Caudill, Jim Deakins, and Dick Summers, three of the most...

The sequel to The Big Sky, The Way West charts Dick Summers's return to the untamed West to guide a group of settlers on the difficult journey to Oregon by way of a hazardous wagon trail. (With sure skill, with absolute command of eve...

At a difficult and sad time in his family life, A. B. Guthrie, Jr., turned for surcease to reading western and whodunit novels. In his autobiography, The Blue Hen's Chick (also a Bison Book), he touches on that moment when he realized...