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Book Review of Boone's Lick

Boone's Lick
Boone's Lick
Author: Larry McMurtry
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Paperback
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In the backwater town of Boone's Lick, Missouri, Mary has finally had it with her husband, Dickie--whose job supplying forts along the Oregon Trail gives him ample opportunity to be swayed out of wedding vows. Determined to se thing aright, she collects her children--along with the rest of her kin--and makes her West on a comic jouney of epic proportions. Incourtering every peril of life on the trial, Mary is about to show them all why hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.