Buffalo Girls A Novel [Paperback]

In a letter to her daughter back East, Martha Jane is not shy about her own importance: Martha Jane -- better known as Calamity -- is just one of the handful of aging legends who travel to London as part of Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show in Buffalo Girls. As he describes the insatiable curiosity of Calamity's Indian friend No Ears, Annie Oakley's shooting match with Lord Windhouveren, and other highlights of the tour, McMurtry turns the story of a band of hardy, irrepressible survivors into an unforgettable portrait of love, fellowship, dreams, and heartbreak.Houston ChronicleNot sinceLonesome Dovehas [Larry McMurtry] written so movingly about the disappearance of the West.The New York TimesA wonderfully warm and touching elegy to the passing of the frontier...a salute to the dying West, as rendered through McMurtry's wonderfully quirky characters.NewsdayBuffalo Girlsis as pure and sweet as a waltz played on a cold night. You'll love it.