Telegraph Days : A Novel (Paperback)

from thejazzmonger

Delightful! Larry McMurtry can always be counted on to entertain and he is without peer in delineating life in the American West, whether modern day or in the Old West. "Telegraph Days" takes us back to the time of Buffalo Bill Cody, Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday & Wild Bill Hickock. Unlike most of Mc...

from pennsylady

Famous gunslingers of the era, including Buffalo Bill Cody, Wild Bill Hickok, Gen. George Custer, Jesse James, Billy the Kid, and the Earp brothers pepper the novel. Marie Antoinette Courtright (Nellie) is narrator and is no conventional heroine. Our story begins in Rita Blanca. Nellie is the tel...

from nknail

Larry McMurtry's book - Telegraph Days - has a wide sweep of western history, from approximately 1876 until 1920. The narrator is a woman who became a small western town's telegrapher and went on to adventures with Buffalo Bill, Jesse James and Wild Bill Hickok. McMurtry's skill as a writer is te...

from dougwood57

A slightly absurdist romp through the Old West. Nellie and Jackson Courtright are orphaned when their Virginia-gentry father "suicides himself" in Rita Blanca, No Man's Land. Jackson soon becomes accidentally famous when he guns down 6 desperadoes - "beginner's luck" - it later becomes clear he c...

from nknail

Larry McMurtry's book - Telegraph Days - has a wide sweep of western history, from approximately 1876 until 1920. The narrator is a woman who became a small western town's telegrapher and went on to adventures with Buffalo Bill, Jesse James and Wild Bill Hickok. McMurtry's skill as a writer is te...