. . "A \"homesman\" is a person charged with taking women who have been driven mad by the conditions of rural life in the 1850's to asylums in the East. Mary Bee Cuddy, an ex-teacher and spinster, who is indomitable, resourceful, and \"plain as an old tin pail.\" Brave as she is, Mary Bee knows she can't make it alone, so she takes along her only available companion: the lowlife and untrustworthy George Briggs."@en . . "The Homesman is a devastating, humane story of early pioneers to America's West in the 1850's. It celebrates the ones we hear nothing of-the brave women whose hearts and minds were broken by that life of bitter hardship. When a nineteen-year-old mother loses her three children to diphtheria in three days, or a woman left alone for two nights has to shoot wolves as they crash through the window, it is no wonder they should lose their minds. After a dreadful winter, the Rev. Dowd finds there are four such cases in his parish and, as yet, no asylum in this frontier town. A 'homesman' must be found to escort the women East to civilization. Not a job anyone would volunteer for, it falls to Mary Bee Cuddy, ex-teacher, spinster-indomitable, resourceful, \"plain as an old tin pail.\" Brave as she is, Mary Bee knows she cannot succeed alone, and the only companion available is the low-life and untrustworthy \"George Briggs,\" a claim-jumper.Thus begins a trek East, against the tide of colonization, against hardship, Indian attacks, ice storms, loneliness, and the unceasing aggravation of a disparate group of mad women, which provides a series of tough, fast-paced adventures and introduces two wonderful, idiosyncratic characters." . . "The homesman : a novel"@en . . . . . . "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..."@en . . . . . . "Audiobooks"@en . "Audiobooks" . . . . "Downloadable audio books"@en . "The Homesman"@en . . . . . . . "Western stories"@en . "Western stories" . "The homesman" . . . . . . . "Four women in the isolated frontier territory go mad, and it is up to the unlikely combination of homesteader Mary Bee Cuddy and ne'er-do-well Briggs to escort them east to safety."@en . . "Fiction"@en . . "Suicidal behavior." . . "TEI Landmark Audio." . . "United States, West." . . "Simon and Schuster, Inc." . . "Historical - General Fiction." . . "Women pioneers West (U.S.) Fiction." . . "Westerns - General Fiction." . . "Women pioneers Fiction." . . "Media Tie-In - General Fiction." . . "Women pioneers." . . "Women Suicidal behavior." . . "Women Suicidal behavior Fiction." . . "Suicidal behavior Fiction." . . "Audioworks (Firm)" . . . . "FICTION / General." . .