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Butcher's Crossing

by John Williams

2007 274 pages eng ★ 4.0 (8 ratings)

In the 1870s, Will Andrews, fired up by Emerson to seek "an original relation to nature," drops out of Harvard and heads west. He washes up in Butcher's Crossing, a small Kansas town full of restless men looking for ways to make money and ways to waste it. One of these men regales Will with tales of…

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