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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Publication date
June 17, 2008
Pages
304
Binding
Paperback
Edition
Reprint
Book category
Adult Fiction
ISBN-13
9780743250931
ISBN-10
0743250931
Dimensions
0.75 by 5 by 8 in.
Weight
0.60 lbs.
Original list price
$16.00
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The Last Kind Words Saloon | Boone's Lick | When the Light Goes | Crazy Horse | Leaving Cheyenne | Streets of Laredo | Horseman, Pass by | Folly and Glory | Dead Man's Walk
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lonesome Dove comes a big, brilliant, unputdownable saga of the Old West, told in the spunky courageous voice of a young woman named Nellie Courtright.
When twenty-two-year-old Nellie Courtright and her teenage brother Jackson are unexpectedly orphaned by their fatherâs suicide on his new and unprosperous ranch, they make their way to the nearby town of Rita Blanca, where Jackson manages to secure a job as a sheriff's deputy, while Nellie, ever resourceful, becomes the townâs telegrapher.
Together, they inadvertently put Rita Blanca on the map when young Jackson succeeds in shooting down all six of the ferocious Yazee brothers in a gunfight that brings him lifelong fame but which he can never repeat because his success came purely out of luck.
Propelled by her own energy and commonsense approach to life, Nellie meets and almost conquers the heart of Buffalo Bill, the man she will love most in her long life, and goes on to meet, and witness the exploits of, Billy the Kid, the Earp brothers, and Doc Holliday. She even gets a ringside seat at the Battle at the O.K. Corral, the most famous gunfight in Western history, and eventually lives long enough to see the West and its gunfighters turned into movies.
Full of life, love, shootouts, real Western heroes and villains, Telegraph Days is Larry McMurtry at his epic best.
When twenty-two-year-old Nellie Courtright and her teenage brother Jackson are unexpectedly orphaned by their fatherâs suicide on his new and unprosperous ranch, they make their way to the nearby town of Rita Blanca, where Jackson manages to secure a job as a sheriff's deputy, while Nellie, ever resourceful, becomes the townâs telegrapher.
Together, they inadvertently put Rita Blanca on the map when young Jackson succeeds in shooting down all six of the ferocious Yazee brothers in a gunfight that brings him lifelong fame but which he can never repeat because his success came purely out of luck.
Propelled by her own energy and commonsense approach to life, Nellie meets and almost conquers the heart of Buffalo Bill, the man she will love most in her long life, and goes on to meet, and witness the exploits of, Billy the Kid, the Earp brothers, and Doc Holliday. She even gets a ringside seat at the Battle at the O.K. Corral, the most famous gunfight in Western history, and eventually lives long enough to see the West and its gunfighters turned into movies.
Full of life, love, shootouts, real Western heroes and villains, Telegraph Days is Larry McMurtry at his epic best.
Editions
Hardcover
Large print edition from Wheeler Pub Inc (June 7, 2006)
9781597222495 | details & prices | 496 pages | 6.00 × 8.50 × 0.75 in. | 1.35 lbs | List price $32.95
About: Academy Award-winner Larry McMurtry offers his most ambitious Western novel since Lonesome Dove Nobody writes better about the West than Larry McMurtry, and in Telegraph Days he offers the big novel of Western gunfighters that people have been hoping for years he would write.
About: Academy Award-winner Larry McMurtry offers his most ambitious Western novel since Lonesome Dove Nobody writes better about the West than Larry McMurtry, and in Telegraph Days he offers the big novel of Western gunfighters that people have been hoping for years he would write.
Paperback
The price comparison is for this edition
Reprint edition from Simon & Schuster (June 17, 2008)
9780743250931 | details & prices | 304 pages | 5.00 × 8.00 × 0.75 in. | 0.60 lbs | List price $16.00
About: From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lonesome Dove comes a big, brilliant, unputdownable saga of the Old West, told in the spunky courageous voice of a young woman named Nellie Courtright.
About: From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lonesome Dove comes a big, brilliant, unputdownable saga of the Old West, told in the spunky courageous voice of a young woman named Nellie Courtright.
Large print edition from Large Print Pr (May 9, 2007)
9781594132100 | details & prices | 495 pages | 5.50 × 8.50 × 1.25 in. | 1.26 lbs | List price $13.95
About: Orphaned by their father's suicide, Nellie and her brother, Jackson, take jobs in the western town of Rita Blanca, where deputy sheriff Jackson is forced to confront six gunfighter brothers and telegrapher Nellie pursues a romance with Buffalo Bill.
About: Orphaned by their father's suicide, Nellie and her brother, Jackson, take jobs in the western town of Rita Blanca, where deputy sheriff Jackson is forced to confront six gunfighter brothers and telegrapher Nellie pursues a romance with Buffalo Bill.
Reprint edition from Pocket Star (April 24, 2007)
9780743476911 | details & prices | 405 pages | 4.25 × 6.75 × 1.00 in. | 0.45 lbs | List price $7.99
About: Orphaned by her father's suicide, Nellie and her brother, Jackson, take jobs in the western town of Rita Blanca, where deputy sheriff Jackson is forced to confront six gunfighter brothers and telegrapher Nellie pursues a romance with Buffalo Bill during the Battle of the O.
About: Orphaned by her father's suicide, Nellie and her brother, Jackson, take jobs in the western town of Rita Blanca, where deputy sheriff Jackson is forced to confront six gunfighter brothers and telegrapher Nellie pursues a romance with Buffalo Bill during the Battle of the O.
Miscellaneous
With Annie Potts (other contributor) |
Unabridged edition from Simon & Schuster Audioworks (May 30, 2006)
9780743565264 | details & prices | List price $23.95
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