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In pioneer Nebraska, a woman leads where no man will go. Soon to be always a major motion picture aimed by Tommy Lee Jones, The Homesman is a destructive story of early on pioneers in 1850s American West. It celebrates the ones we hear nothing at all of: the brave women whose hearts and heads were broken with a life of bitter hardship. A "homesman" must be found to escort a small number of them back East to a sanitarium. When none of them of the county's men steps up, the work comes to Mary Bee Cuddy - ex-teacher, spinster, indomitable and resourceful. Daring as she actually is, Mary Bee recognizes she cannot do well alone. The only real companion she can find is the low-life case jumper George Briggs. Thus starts a trek east, up against the tide of colonization, against hardship, Indian problems, glaciers storms, and loneliness - a ageless traditional told in a series of tough, fast-paced activities. In an unprecedented sweep, Glendon Swarthout's book won both Western Freelance writers of America's Spur Award and the European Heritage Wrangler Award. A new afterword by the author's child Miles Swarthout says of his parents Glendon and Kathryn's discovery of and research in to the lives of the oft-forgotten frontier women who make The Homesman as moving and believable as it is unforgettable.
