Boone's Lick
Subtitle: A Novel
Publisher: Pocket
Published: April 1, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780671040581
Subjects: Historical - General; Fiction - Western; Fiction; Westerns - General; Fiction / Historical; General
First sentence: UNCLE Seth was firmly convinced that bad things mostly happen on cloudy days.
Description: In the backwater town of Boone's Lick, Missouri, Mary Margaret has finally had it with her ne'er-do-well husband, Dickie - whose job supplying forts along the Oregon Trail gives him ample opportunity to be swayed out of his wedding vows.  Determined to set things aright, she collects her children - along with the rest of her cantankerous kin - and makes her way West on a comic journey of epic proportions.  Encountering every peril of life on the trail, Mary Margaret is about to show them all why hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.