Buffalo Girls

Name: Buffalo Girls
Brand: Simon & Schuster Audio
Availability: InStock
Rating: 1 (1 reviews)
Author: Larry McMurtry
ISBN: 9780743542180

Author: Larry McMurtry

Narrator: Betty Buckley

Unabridged: 9 hr 43 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio

Published: 12/01/1990

Categories: Fiction, Historical Fiction, Western

Synopsis

A strange old woman caked in Montana mud pens a letter to her darling daughter back East—the writer's name is Martha Jane, but her friends call her Calamity...

I am the Wild West, no show about it. I was one of the people who kept it wild.

Larry McMurtry returns to the territory of his Pulitzer Prize–winning masterwork, Lonesome Dove, to sing the song of Calamity Jane's last ride. In a letter to her daughter back East, Martha Jane is not shy about her own importance. Martha Jane—better known as Calamity—is just one of the handful of aging legends who travel to London as part of Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show in Buffalo Girls. As he describes the insatiable curiosity of Calamity's Indian friend No Ears, Annie Oakley's shooting match with Lord Windhouveren, and other highlights of the tour, McMurtry turns the story of a band of hardy, irrepressible survivors into an unforgettable portrait of love, fellowship, dreams, and heartbreak.

About Larry McMurtry

Larry McMurtry (1936–2021) was the author of twenty-nine novels, including the Pulitzer Prize–winning Lonesome Dove, three memoirs, two collections of essays, and more than thirty screenplays. He lived in Archer City, Texas.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Max on May 26, 2014

Very, very disappointing as I have other McMurtry novels on my shelves (Lonesome Dove, Leaving Cheyenne, The Last Picture Show, Texasville) and have thoroughly enjoyed each and every one of them. I looked forward to Buffalo Girls as another enjoyable read. Boy, was I let down. The entire story revol......more

Goodreads review by Nancyann on December 24, 2015

This was the umpteenth time I read Buffalo Girls but the first time since joining Goodreads, hence the review. This is Larry McMurtry at his finest. I see that others have posted that it cannot compare to Lonesome Dove. Yes, Lonesome Dove is a true epic tale of the west that was. Buffalo Girls is a......more

Goodreads review by John on May 17, 2021

Reread this for the first time in two decades. I'm teaching a course in Revisionist Westerns right now, and we just finished The Sisters Brothers which was fine, thank you. But I had forgotten to some extent just how good a writer that peak (or even near peak) McMurtry is. Funny, wistful, sad--and v......more

Goodreads review by Dennis on May 01, 2024

I'm not really sure when I read this but I remember that I did. It was a nice slice of the history of the West, as only Larry McMurtry can write it - humorous but human - however it fell a little flat for me, as far as plot goes. I turned the pages with no particular destination except the end, wher......more