The Wandering Hill: The Berrybender Narratives Book 2 (2)

About this book

The second volume in Larry McMurtrys four-part historical epic featuring the Berrybender family as they continue their journey through the West during the 1830s. In The Wandering Hill Larry McMurtry continues the story of Tasmin Berrybender and her eccentric family in the still unexplored Wild West of the 1830s. Their journey is one of exploration beset by difficulties tragedies the desertion of trusted servants and the increasing hardships of day-to-day survival in a land where nothing can be taken for granted. By now Tasmin is married to the elusive young mountain man Jim Snow (the "Sin Killer"). On his part Jim is about to discover that in taking the outspoken tough-minded stubbornly practical young aristocratic woman into his teepee he has bitten off more than he can chew. Still theirs is a great love affair and dominates this volume of Larry McMurtrys The Berrybender Narratives in which Tasmin gradually takes center stage as her father loses his strength and powers of concentration and her family goes to pieces stranded in the hostile wilderness. The Wandering Hill (which refers to a powerful and threatening legend in local Indian folklore) is at once literature on a grand scale and riveting entertainment by a master storyteller.