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.
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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