First published in 1960, Butcher’s Crossing follows the adventures of four men on the trail of buffalo in the early 1870s in Kansas and Colorado . . .
Will Andrews is no academic. He longs for wildness, freedom and vigour. He leaves Harvard and sets out for the West to discover a new way of living. In a small town called Butcher’s Crossing he meets a hunter with a story of a lost herd of buffalo in a remote Colorado valley, just waiting to be taken by a team of men brave enough and crazy enough to find them. Will decides to be one of those men, but the journey, the killing, harsh conditions and sheer hard luck will test his mind and body to their limits.