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050	0	0	_aPS3553.O633 _bH83 2017
082	1		_aFIC COO _2
100	1		_aCoover, Robert
245	1	0	_aHuck out west _c/ Robert Coover
250			_aFirst edition.
260			_aNew York _b: W. W. Norton & Company _c, 2017
300			_a308 p. _c; 25 cm
520			_aIn Robert Coover's Huck Out West, also "wrote by Huck," the boys escape "civilization" and "light out for the Territory," riding for the famous but short-lived Pony Express, then working as scouts for both sides in the war. They are suddenly separated when Tom decides he'd rather own civilization than leave it, returning east with his new wife, Becky Thatcher, to learn the law from her father. Huck, abandoned and "dreadful lonely," hires himself out to "whosoever." He rides shotgun on coaches, wrangles horses on a Chisholm Trail cattle drive, joins a gang of bandits, guides wagon trains, gets dragged into U.S. Army massacres, suffers a series of romantic and barroom misadventures. He is eventually drawn into a Lakota tribe by a young brave, Eeteh. There is an army colonel who wants to hang Huck and destroy Eeteh's tribe. From the middle of the Civil War to the centennial year of 1876, is probably the most formative era of the nation's history. In the West, it is a time of grand adventure, but also one of greed, religious insanity, mass slaughter, virulent hatreds, widespread poverty and ignorance, ruthless military and civilian leadership, huge disparities of wealth. Only Huck's sympathetic and gently comical voice can make it somehow bearable.
546			_aEnglish.
650		4	_aFinn, Huckleberry (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
650		4	_aSawyer, Tom (Fictitious character) _v--Fiction
655		4	_aAdventure fiction
655		4	_aHistorical fiction
655		4	_aAction and adventure fiction
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