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A.B. Guthrie Jr.
Full Series List in Order
Chick Charleston
1 - Wild Pitch (Jul-1987)2 - The Genuine Article (Apr-2010)
3 - No Second Wind (Oct-2010)
4 - Playing Catch-Up (Aug-1985)
5 - Murder in the Cotswolds (May-1989)
Book List in Order: 15 titles
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The Way West
- 1949
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An enormously entertaining classic, THE WAY WEST brings to life the adventure of the western passage and the pioneer spirit. The sequel to THE BIG SKY, this celebrated novel charts a frontiersman''s return to the untamed West in 1846. Dick Summers, a...
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The Big Sky
- Nov-1984
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THE BIG SKY is the first of A.B. Guthrie's epic adventure novels of America's vast frontier. It is a story as great as the land that inspired it, sweeping westward from Kentucky, up the Missouri River into Indian Country. Towering above the novel is ...
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Playing Catch-Up
- Aug-1985
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A ruthless killer preys on the young women of Montana in this tale of suspense from a pioneer of Western fiction Madame Simone runs a brothel on the outskirts of Overthrust, Montana, an oil town just down the road from the ranching community of Midbu...
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Wild Pitch
- Jul-1987
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From a Pulitzer Prizeâ€"winning novelist of the American West comes the first installment in a mystery series as entertaining as the Montana sky is big A self-made cattle baron with a bad habit of letting his stock graze on his neighbors’ property,...
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Murder in the Cotswolds
- May-1989
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A Montana sheriff solves a quintessentially English mystery in this lively episode in A. B. Guthrie Jr.’s beloved suspense series Sheriff Chick Charleston is used to the big sky, wide-open spaces, and no-nonsense attitude of the American West. But ...
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Murders at Moon Dance
- May-1993
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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 he could write ...
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Fair Land, Fair Land
- Sep-1995
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With his revered classics The Big Sky and The Way West, A. B. Guthrie, Jr., claimed his preeminent post as the father of the western epic. Fair Land, Fair Land, first published in 1982, marks the sequel to his two masterworks and rounds out a chronol...
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These Thousand Hills
- Sep-1995
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These Thousand Hills continues the western epic of A. B. Guthrie, Jr.'s, critically acclaimed Big Sky series. This vivid American saga conjures up the world of cattle ranchers in the 1880s, focusing on a Montana community's boisterous, wanderlusting ...
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The Genuine Article
- Apr-2010
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Two murders shock a Rocky Mountain ranch town in this captivating suspense novel from one of Montana’s greatest storytellers In the two years since his last adventure with Sheriff Chick Charleston, Jason Beard has been away at college, preparing to...
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No Second Wind
- Oct-2010
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The temperature in Midbury, Montana, is hovering at 40 below zero, wolves are howling, and the town is smoldering with a strip-mining debate that quickly exceeds the bounds of polite discussion. The ranchers are not about to see their land destroyed,...
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The Big It and Other Stories
- Nov-2012
- / General Fiction
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A. B. Guthrie Jr. is best known for his historical fiction; his classic novel The Way West earned him a Pulitzer Prize. Guthrie had the ability to create memorable yet believable characters, was skillful in his use of narration and point of view, ...
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Trouble at Moon Dance
- Apr-2020
- / Historical
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“Fight for us or get shot!” It wasn’t a threat Bally Buck made to West Cawinne but a grim prophecy. Two six-gun experts couldn’t graze the same range—not when one was Robideau, a half-breed specialist in treachery, and t...
Award-Winning Books by A.B. Guthrie Jr.
1949 Pulitzer Prize -- Fiction