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“The year was 1873 and all about was the evidence of boom and bust, shattered dreams, foolish ambition, depredation, shame, greed, and cruelty . . .”

Onto this broken Western stage rides Michael Coughlin, a Civil War veteran with an enigmatic past, come to town to settle his dead brother’s debt. Together with his widowed sister-in-law, Elizabeth, bankrupted by her husband’s folly and death, they embark on a massive, and hugely dangerous, buffalo hunt. Elizabeth hopes to salvage something of her former life and the lives of the hired men and their families who now depend on her; the buffalo hunt that her husband had planned, she now realizes, was his last hope for saving the land.

Elizabeth and Michael plunge south across the aptly named “dead line” demarcating Indian Territory from their home state of Kansas. Nothing could have prepared them for the dangers: rattlesnakes, rabies, wildfire, lightning strikes, blue northers, flash floods—and human treachery. With the Comanche in winter quarters, Elizabeth and Michael are on borrowed time, and the cruel work of harvesting the buffalo is unraveling their souls.

Bracing, direct, and quintessentially American, Olmstead’s gripping narrative follows that infamous hunt, which drove the buffalo to near extinction. Savage Country is the story of a moment in our history in which mass destruction of an animal population was seen as a road to economic salvation. But it’s also the intimate story of how that hunt changed Michael and Elizabeth forever.

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An Amazon Best Book of October 2017: The Western in cinema might be dead (or at least at a very low ebb), but in fiction, the Western is thriving. And it isn't Cowboys & Indians pulp (not intended as a pejorative here), but a darker, morally unsettled, and often violent strain more easily traced to Cormac McCarthy. Philipp Meyer's The Son comes to mind, as does Patrick deWitt's The Sisters Brothers, and anything by Ron Rash or Wiley Cash. Robert Olmstead's latest novel, Savage Country, fits comfortably into this category, as well. It's 1873 and Elizabeth Coughlin - widowed and bankrupted when a headstrong horse kicks her husband in the forehead - ventures into Indian Territory with her enigmatic brother-in-law on the "last buffalo hunt," a desperate attempt to salvage something of her former life. The country is indeed savage and the slaughter is grisly and demoralizing, its realism heightened by Olmstead's precise, original prose layered over meticulous research. An Old Testament mood looms over the action, but his character’s choices – where they exist - are transactional and rarely moral. Olmstead’s vision of the West raises uncomfortable questions about our heritage as a country and a culture; it’s the Western of our times. —Jon Foro, The Amazon Book Review
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Robert Olmstead is the author of eight previous books. Coal Black Horse was the winner of the Heartland Prize for Fiction. The Coldest Night was a finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. Far Bright Star was the winner of the Western Writers of America Spur Award. Olmstead is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and an NEA grant and is a professor at Ohio Wesleyan University.

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  • ISBN 13 9781616204129
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