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revans's review
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
3.0
gimpyknee's review against another edition
5.0
Butcher's Crossing by John Williams, Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy, Warlock by Oakley Hall, and now Savage Country by Robert Olmstead are the must read books you need to read about the American West. Let others here give summary reviews of this wonderful book, I'll simply say this is one magnificent read.
asreadbycourtney's review against another edition
I have absolutely no interest or care for this book.
jamjimham's review against another edition
5.0
A very good little novel. Robert Olmstead was able to create a western tale that seem like a 700 page epic. I loved the level of detail he was able to incorporate into the landscape and the actual buffalo hunts. It is brutal and tragic at times. But felt like it portrayed what the west would have been like. Looking forward to get into other Olmstead novels.
flogigyahoo's review against another edition
5.0
Savage Country by Robert Olmstead will probably be the last book I finish reading in 2017 and what a treat it is. This is a fine, rip-roaring western adventure, but definitely not for the fainthearted. Elizabeth has just lost her husband and will probably soon lose the farm she and her husband built. To make money she requests Michael, her husband's brother, an animal hunter, to help her hunt down the wild buffalo that roam America's wild west so she can sell their pelts and parts. They set off with teams of oxen and crew to kill buffalo, and kill they do, tallying 150, 180, 200 kills a day. It is hard to read today of the bloody killing, butchering and decimation of thousands of animals to extinction, but Olmstead seems to know in minute detail of how life was lived in those times, what people ate, wore, read, thought and you read and think: Yes, it must have been just like that. This is a book filled with description, dialog, gore and love. I enjoyed every single line. Not for everyone, but a book that makes one think of how it was in earlier America.
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