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Englishman Lord Berrybender's excursion into the American frontier lands him in the custody of Mexican authorities who decide to move the group across the desert to Vera Cruz, while Berrybender's oldest daughter Tasmin, having finally made it to civilization in New Orleans, tries to decide whether she wants her husband, mountainman Jim Snow, to be part of her future.
4) Zeke and Ned
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Set in the Cherokee nation not long after the Civil War tells the story of Zeke Proctor who is in trouble with the law after shooting his mistress and of Ned Christie who escapes to the Ozark Mountains after being unjustly accused of committing several murders.
5) Sin killer
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Beautiful, determined Tasmin Berrybender, daughter of a wealthy, aristocratic Englishman who has brought his family to America in 1830 on an adventure of exploration in the just-opening West, meets and falls in love with frontiersman Jim Snow, an Indian-fighter and part-time preacher known as "the Sin Killer."
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The Berrybenders, a family of English sportsmen, have traveled to America to hunt buffalo and other big game. As winter strikes, they settle in a trading post near the junction of the Missouri and Yellowstone Rivers. The aristocratic and outspoken eldest daughter Tasmin has married taciturn trapper Jim Snow, and is pregnant with their first child. But if this union seems strange, it is rivaled by the antics of the licentious Lord Berrybender.
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His first three novels- Horseman, Pass By (1961),* Leaving Cheyenne (1963), and The Last Picture Show (1966)- all set in the north Texas town of Thalia after World War II, are collected here for the first time. In this trilogy, McMurtry writes tragically of men and women trying to carve out an existence on the plains, where the forces of modernity challenge small- town American life.
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