Search - Boone's Lick

This is a gem of a book, reminiscent of Mark Twain in its understated humor and wry look at human nature. Sixteen-year-old Shay Cecil is uprooted from the life he's known when his mother, Mary Margaret, decides to uproot her brood and go in search of her "travelin' man" husband. Along the way, they meet a variety of characters, and Shay learns a lot more about life in general and his family in particular than he ever expected to know.

Not my usual book to read, but it was really good. very readable...

In the backwater town of Boone's Lick, Missouri, Mary Margaret has finally had it with her ne'er-do-well husband, Dickie - whose job supplying forts along the Oregon Trail gives him ample opportunity to be swayed out of his wedding vows. Determined to set things aright, she collects her children - along with the rest of her cantankerous kin - and makes her way West on a comic journey of epic proportions. Encountering every peril of life on the trail, Mary Margaret is about to show them all why hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.

Excellent book. This is the first book I've read by this author but I will read more.

Larry McMurtry is a very good writer. This story of a woman who tires of her husbands long absences (years at a time) from supplying forts along the Oregon trail. ( He's a little bit of a ne'er do well.) She gathers up her family, goes West to find him.

very good read!