Audio Book Description:
In The Wandering Hill, Larry McMurtry continues the story of Tasmin Berrybender andher family in the unexplored Wild West of the 1830`s,at that point in time when Lewis and Clark are still a living memory, and when the clash between the powerful Indian tribes of the Missouri and theencroaching white Americans is about to turn into full-blown tragedy. Amidst allthis, the Berrybender family - English, eccentric, wealthy,and fiercely out of place - continues their journey of exploration, although beset by difficulties, tragedies, and the increasing hardships of day-to-daysurvival. Abandoning their luxurious steamer, which is stuck in the ice near the Knife River, they make their wayoverland to the confluence of the Missouri and the Yellowstone. Tasmin isabout to becomea mother, living with the elusive young mountain man Jim Snow.Theirs is a great love affair, lived outin conditions of great risk. From the murder of the iced-in steamship`s crew to the appearance ofthe Partezon, a particularly blood- thirsty Sioux warrior with a band of over two hundred, The Wandering Hill is at onceliterature on a grand scale andriveting entertainment by a master storyteller.
