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Boone's lick

McMurtry brings his unique blend of historical fact and sheer storytelling genius to the Cecil family's arduous journey from Boone's Lick, Missouri, to Fort Phil Kearney in Wyoming. Fifteen year old Shay describes the journey that begins when his Ma, Mary Margaret, decides to hunt down her elusive husband, Dick, to tell him she's leaving him.

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  • "McMurtry brings his unique blend of historical fact and sheer storytelling genius to the Cecil family's arduous journey from Boone's Lick, Missouri, to Fort Phil Kearney in Wyoming. Fifteen year old Shay describes the journey that begins when his Ma, Mary Margaret, decides to hunt down her elusive husband, Dick, to tell him she's leaving him."@en
  • "Mary Margaret's husband, Dick, has left her and their four children in Boone's Lick while he seeks his fortunes in the West. Mary Margaret lives contentedly with the children and Dick's brother Seth, until one day she decides she's had enough of playing the estranged wife and packs up, and travels from Boone's Lick to the Western frontier."
  • "When Mary Margaret Cecil decides to leave her husband, she decides she should hunt him down and tell him so. Thus begins the family's journey from Boone's Lick, MO, to Fort Phil Kearny, WY, complete with grizzly bears, stormy weather, and hostile Indians."
  • "Mary Margaret's husband, Dick, has left her and their four children in Boone's Lick while he seeks his fortunes in the West. Mary Margaret lives contentedly with the children and Dick's brother, Seth, until one day she decides she's had enough of playing the estranged wife and packs up the entire household. And so the Cecil family leaves their little town and travels by wagon to Wyoming, accompanied along the way by a fat priest and a Shoshone. They do find Dick, and they also arrive in Wyoming just in time for the 1866 Fetterman Massacre."@en
  • "Set in 1866, this whimsical adventure follows the determined Mary Margaret Cecil as she takes her family and travels from Missouri across the wilderness to Wyoming to find her husband."@en
  • "Western tale of high adventure, featuring a family that decides to leave Boone's Lick, Missouri for For Phil Kearny in Wyoming, encountering grizzly bears, storms, priests, and Indians."
  • "Fifteen-year-old Shay describes the Cecil family's arduous journey from Boone's Lick, Missouri, to Fort Phil Kearny in Wyoming. It begins when his Ma, Mary Margaret, decides to hunt down her elusive husband, Dick, to tell him she's leaving him."
  • "The Cecil family encounter grizzly bears, stormy weather and hostile Indians when they set off from Boone's Lick Missouri, in search of Mary Margaret's elusive husband."
  • "Tells of the Cecil family's arduous journey from Boone's Lick, Missouri, to Fort Phil Kearny in Wyoming. Mother and children encounter grizzly bears, stormy weather and hostile Indians."@en
  • "Mary Margaret Cecil decides to leave Boone's Lick, Missouri, with her family, in an arduous journey to Fort Phil Kearny in Wyoming to hunt down her elusive husband and tell him she's leaving him. They arrive in Wyoming in time for the 1866 Fetterman Massacre."@en

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  • "Fiction"@en
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  • "Historical fiction"@en
  • "Historical fiction"
  • "History"
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Western stories"@en
  • "Western stories"
  • "Sound recordings"
  • "Domestic fiction"
  • "Domestic fiction"@en

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  • "Boone's lick"@en
  • "Boone's lick"
  • "Boone's Lick"
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  • "Boone's Lick [6 tapes] a novel"
  • "Boone's lick[CD]"@en
  • "Boone's Lick [a novel]"@en
  • "Boone's Lick a novel"
  • "Boone's Lick a novel"@en

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