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| Edition: | Mariner Books (Paperback) |
| Author: | A. B. Guthrie, Jr. |
| Published: | January 2002 |
| Pages: | 352 |
| ISBN 10: | 0618154620 |
| New: | $6.58 (31) |
| Used: | $1.24 (45) |
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The Way West is a western novel by A. B. Guthrie, Jr., published in 1949. The novel won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1950. The book became the basis for a film starring Kirk Douglas, Robert Mitchum, and Richard Widmark.
Plot introduction
Former senator William Tadlock leads a wagon train from along the Oregon Trail from Missouri with the help of hired guide Dick Summers. After several accidents which cost settlers lives, a mutiny of sorts develops and his position is overtaken by Lije Evans. Soon, different factions develop amongst the people of the train as they try to survive their trek to Oregon.
