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Last Go Round : A Real Western Paperback - 1995
by Ken Kesey; Ken Babbs
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
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- Title Last Go Round : A Real Western
- Author Ken Kesey; Ken Babbs
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 272
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Publishing Group, New York
- Date 1995
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0140176675I4N00
- ISBN 9780140176674 / 0140176675
- Weight 0.59 lbs (0.27 kg)
- Dimensions 7.75 x 5.06 x 0.57 in (19.69 x 12.85 x 1.45 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects Western stories, Oregon
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
Summary
Hundreds of riders were competing for the first World Championship Broncbusting title, but it was one special trio of buckeroos that provided the drama: a popular black cowboy, George Fletcher; a Nez Perce Indian cowboy, Jackson Sundown; and a fresh-faced kid from Tennessee name of Johnathan E. Lee Spain. Who would walk away with the prize money and the silver-studded saddle? When the dust cleared, everyone knew they'd witnessed something extraordinary.
Kesey has journeyed back into Oregon history to reclaim this long-remembered moment, beefed up the bare bones of fact, and whipped them into a full-blown rip-snorting Tale of the True West. Sixteen pages of rare Round Up photographs provide graphic testimony of the time. The tiny town of Pendleton is swollen to bursting that memorable weekend and bristling with colorful characters like Buffalo Bill Cody, wrestler Frank "The Cruel Crusher" Gotch, cowgirl Prairie Rose Henderson, and a formidable medicine man named Parson Montanic. From the teepees along the river to the teeming saloons on Main Street, Round Up fever blazes like a prairie fire. This story of love, sweat, and horseflesh is a unique Western, wild and wooly and full of fleas. Let 'er buck!