Fair Land Fair Land

With his revered classics The Big Sky and The Way West A. B. Guthrie Jr. claimed his preeminent post as the father of the western epic. Fair Land Fair Land first published in 1982 marks the sequel to his two masterworks and rounds out a chronological gap the mid-nineteenth century in Guthrie''s Big Sky series. Reappearing here is Dick Summers of the earlier sagas now a wizened conservationist who seeks retribution from his former compatriot Boone Caudill and renewed companionship with the self-reliant Teal Eye. Imbued with a rich sense for the impermanence of the idyllic plains this tour de force offers a stirring commentary on a country''s physical and spiritual erosion as relevant today as it was a decade ago.