Under the Big SkyAuthor of The Big Sky series, The Way West, and the screenplay for the classic film Shane, among other timeless stories of frontier mountain men, icon of Western literature A. B. Bud Guthrie Jr. brought blazing realism to the story of the West. That realism, which astounded and even shocked some readers, came out of the depth of Guthries historical research and an acuity that had seldom been seen in the work of Western novelists. In Under the Big Sky