Details the life and work of a true giant on the Western literary landscape - A.B. ""Bud"" Guthrie Jr., author of The Big Sky series, The Way West, and the screenplay for the classic Shane, among many other timeless stories of frontier mountain men.
Jackson J. Benson is an emeritus¿professor of English¿at San Diego State University. He is the author of several books, including The True Adventures of John Steinbeck, Writer: A Biography; The Ox-Bow Man: A Biography of Walter Van Tilburg Clark; and Wallace Stegner: His Life and Work (available in a Bison Books edition).