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Original Title:	The Homesman
ISBN:	1501102877 (ISBN13: 9781501102875)
Setting:	United States of America,1855
Literary Awards:	Spur Award for Best Novel of the West (1988)

The Homesman

Glendon Swarthout

Paperback | Pages: 256 pages

Rating: 3.86 | 3244 Users | 565 Reviews

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Title	:	The Homesman
Author	:	Glendon Swarthout
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 256 pages
Published	:	November 4th 2014 by Simon Schuster (first published March 6th 1988)
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Westerns. Fiction

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IN PIONEER NEBRASKA, A WOMAN LEADS WHERE NO MAN WILL GO

Soon to be a major motion picture directed by Tommy Lee Jones, The Homesman is a devastating story of early pioneers in 1850s American West. It celebrates the ones we hear nothing of: the brave women whose hearts and minds were broken by a life of bitter hardship. A “homesman” must be found to escort a handful of them back East to a sanitarium. When none of the county’s men steps up, the job falls to Mary Bee Cuddy—ex-teacher, spinster, indomitable and resourceful. Brave as she is, Mary Bee knows she cannot succeed alone. The only companion she can find is the low-life claim jumper George Briggs. Thus begins a trek east, against the tide of colonization, against hardship, Indian attacks, ice storms, and loneliness—a timeless classic told in a series of tough, fast-paced adventures.

In an unprecedented sweep, Glendon Swarthout’s novel won both the Western Writers of America’s Spur Award and the Western Heritage Wrangler Award. A new afterword by the author’s son Miles Swarthout tells of his parents Glendon and Kathryn’s discovery of and research into the lives of the oft-forgotten frontier women who make The Homesman as moving and believable as it is unforgettable.

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This is my very first review on Goodreads, I usually don't write them but this book rubbed me so much the wrong way I couldn't help but write one.The book is very engaging and readable, thus the 2 stars. However, it is touted as an examination of pioneer life from the usually unheard voices of women (which is exactly why I was intrigued to read it in the first place) yet the author's portrayal of these woman seems to undo the very flattery he (supposedly) meant to give them. This book was

I loves me a strong female protagonist, so when I saw Hilary Swank's strong performance as Mary Bee Cuddy in the movie The Homesman I knew I had to read the source material for the movie. The movie was a little disappointing in that Mary's workmate, Briggs, is played by Tommy Lee Jones, so you have a man in his late sixties playing a man who is just a touch on the wrong side of forty. Even so, it was obvious that this story came from the pen of a master and I wasted no time getting a copy of

What a terrific character driven novel with absorbing story that was fast paced and heart-breaking In Pioneer Nebraska, A Woman by the Name of Mary Bee Cuddy, leads where no man will go... This book was recommended to me because I loved Lonesome Dove and while this novel is certainly more concise (250 pages as opposed to 980 in Lonesome Dove) it by no means is any less exciting as it grabs the readers attention right from the first page.A devastating story of the early pioneers in 1850s Americas



This is a terrific book about the pioneer experience from a unique perspective. Four women in an unidentified "Territory" (Wyoming?) completely lose their wits, for various reasons. A "homesman" is chosen to take them back east, across the Missouri, where volunteers will see that each makes it back to her extended family. Only thing is, the homesman is a woman, Mary Bee Cuddy, who keeps a homestead as a single woman. I won't say any more, but the tale is remarkable, and beautifully told. I'll

This is a different type of western tale. The story deals with the problems of mental illness in the western frontier of the 1870s. Mental illness and severe depression was a major problem on the prairies in the 1800s much of it was blamed on the isolation suffered by the women for long periods of time. In this story the author tells the tale of women living in sod huts during a severe winter with brutish husbands who treat them like beasts of burden, with children who die wholesale from

Glendon Swarthout is best known for his western classic The Shootist, a novel that eventually became actor John Waynes last film. But now that Swarthouts equally powerful western, The Homesman, is being filmed (and directed by Tommy Lee Jones), this 1988 novel is being given new life thankfully so, because I missed it the first time around.The Homesman explores an aspect of American western migratory history that is seldom considered: what happened to those 1850s settlers who suffered mental