The Big Sky Author:A.B. Guthrie Jr. This is a novel lived entirely in the open. "The big wild places are both its setting and its theme, and everything about the book is as big as the country it moves in. The story sweeps westward from Kentucky to St. Louis and up the interminable Missouri through Omaha and Pawnee country, past Ree and Sioux country, into Stoney and Big Belly an... more »d Blackfoot country... Bigness, distance, wildness and freedom are the dream that pulls Boone Caudill westward into the mountains...« less