I've come to think that in times of crisis human beings
don't have it in them to be rational. The Yazee gang was
riding down upon us, six abreast. We all ran outside and
confirmed that fact. The sensible thing would have been to
run and hide -- but did we? Not at all.
The
narrator of Larry McMurtry's newest book is spunky Nellie
Courtright, twenty-two years old and already wrapping
every man in the West around her little finger. When she
and her teenage brother Jackson are orphaned, she sweet-
talks the local sheriff into hiring Jackson as a deputy,
while she takes over the vacant job of town telegrapher.
When, by pure blind luck, Jackson shoots down the entire
Yazee gang, Nellie is quick to capitalize on his new
notoriety by selling reviews to reporters. It seems
wherever Nellie is, action is sure to happen, from a love
affair with Buffalo Bill to a ringside seat at the O.K.
Corral gunfight. Told with charm, humor, and an
unparalleled zest for life, Nellie's story is the story of
how the West was won.
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