"It was a fine country to grow up in. To find riches, a boy had only to go outside," writes A. B. Guthrie, Jr., aobut his childhood in Montana early in the twentieth century. This autobiography was originally published in 1965 when he was sixty-four and still had miles to go. It recounts lively adventures and reflects on a career that brought fame for
The Big Sky
(1947) an
"It was a fine country to grow up in. To find riches, a boy had only to go outside," writes A. B. Guthrie, Jr., aobut his childhood in Montana early in the twentieth century. This autobiography was originally published in 1965 when he was sixty-four and still had miles to go. It recounts lively adventures and reflects on a career that brought fame for
The Big Sky
(1947) and led to the Pulitzer Prize for
The Way West
(1949).In an afterword David Petersen, who edited
Big Sky, Fair Land: The Environmental Essays of A. B. Guthrie, Jr.
(1988), describes the last twenty-five years of Guthrie's life. The world-famous author died in 1991 at the age of ninety.
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Paperback
,
279 pages
Published
March 1st 1993
by University of Nebraska Press
(first published 1965)
Alfred Bertram Guthrie, Jr. (January 13, 1901 – April 26, 1991) was an American novelist, screenwriter, historian, and literary historian who won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction during 1950 for his novel The Way West. The author called himself "Bud" because he felt that Alfred Bertram was "a sissy name."