Boone's Lick — Larry McMurtry

In the Old West, killers, scalpers, gunslingers, and backstabbers ruled the land without fear, confident they were the most dangerous people on the prairie. Then Mary Margaret showed up with her kids.

In the backwater town of Boone's Lick, Missouri, Mary Margaret has finally had it with her ne'er-do-well husband, Dickie -- whose job supplying forts along the Oregon Trail gives him ample opportunity to be swayed out of his wedding vows. Determined to set things aright, she collects her children -- along with the rest of her cantankerous kin -- and makes her way West on a comic journey of epic proportions. Encountering every peril of life on the trail, Mary Margaret is about to show them all Why hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.