Book Reviews of Buffalo Girls

Slow and meandering tale of the last days of the mythic symbols of the American West. Calamity Jane, Bill Cody, Sitting Bull, and others, fictional and real, wander through a landscape full of ghosts. Not one of McMurtry's better efforts, though he does manage to pull out a moving final chapter.

This is a great account of the early years of the wild west featuring Calamity Jane and many other colorful characters. Larry McMurtry makes it all come alive.

Back cover: A strange old woman caked in Montana mud pens a letter to her darling daughter back East. The writer's name is Martha Jane, but her friends call her Calamity....

Larry McMurtry returns to the territory of his Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork, Lonesome Dove, to sing the song of Calamity Jane's last ride, as Buffalo Bill Cody convinces Martha Jane and a handful of the West's aging legends to travel to London with his Wild West Show. From the insatiable curiosity of Calamity's wise Indian friend No Ears to Annie Oakley's shooting match with Lord Windhouveren before the Prince of Wales, from the haunting death songs of Sioux warriors at Little Bighorn to the London Zoo, Buffalo Girls is a tale of oceans and prairies, love, war, fellowship, dreams, and heartbreak - as a hardy band of survivors looks back at the myths they created and forward to a future they cannot escape.

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