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Butcher’s Crossing
- Narrated by: Anthony Heald
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
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It is the 1870s, and Will Andrews, fired up by Emerson to seek ''an original relation to nature,'' drops out of Harvard and heads west. He washes up in Butcher's Crossing, a small Kansas town on the outskirts of nowhere. Butcher's Crossing is full of restless men looking for ways to make money and ways to waste it. Before long Andrews strikes up a friendship with one of them, a man who regales Andrews with tales of immense herds of buffalo, ready for the taking, hidden away in a beautiful valley deep in the Colorado Rockies. He convinces Andrews to join in an expedition to track the animals down.
The journey out is grueling, but at the end is a place of paradisiacal richness. Once there, however, the three men abandon themselves to an orgy of slaughter, so caught up in killing buffalo that they lose all sense of time. Winter soon overtakes them: they are snowed in. Next spring, half-insane with cabin fever, cold, and hunger, they stagger back to Butcher's Crossing to find a world as irremediably changed as they have been.
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- Katherine
- 2018-08-30
Great story...strange writing style.
Would have enjoyed the story but it was ruined by the main characters habit of floating into an out of body observation of his situation. During these moments in the book the writer rambles on and on, the characters thoughts resembling the thoughts of someone high on psychedelic drugs. Won't listen to it again.
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