Sowboy A Factual Fanciful Fiction Author:Richard Miller Sowboy follows the twin trails of porcine practicality and youthful idealism into the future when King George rules, the environment is falling apart, pigs can fly and flies can think. Of this Larry McMurtry writes, "Sowboy is original, arresting, vivid, and funny." Why are sowboys social outcasts when cowboys are the stuff of romance and glo... more »ry? Where are the sowboy movies? The hand-tooled sowboy boots? The John Waynes and Clint Eastwoods of the sowboy set? Seeking answers to such questions, Billy Williams follows the twin trails from the Marines to Pigville, a hog farm whose citizens live in rusting auto bodies. Then fleeing the law with pig farmer George, he goes to Chicago and thence, with kindred hog lovers, to Indonesia where he helps found a theme park dedicated to wild boar hunting: Pig Spa Island. The book is illustrated.« less