Butcher's Crossing (Williams)

Author: John Williams

ISBN: 9781590171981

Binding: paperback

Section: Fiction

It is the 1870s, and Will Andrews, fired up by Emerson to seek “an original relation to nature,” drops out of Harvard and heads west. He washes up in Butcher’s Crossing, a small Kansas town on the outskirts of nowhere, and full of restless men looking for ways to make money and ways to waste it.