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- The Homesman is the story of the four insane women and of Mary Bee and her own travels along the edge of insanity, her own travels into the void. But it is also the story of the husbands of the four women who, whether loving or abusing to their wives, are also beaten down by the land they have sought to conquer.
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Apr 15, 2021 · The Homesman is the story of the four insane women and of Mary Bee and her own travels along the edge of insanity, her own travels into the void. But it is also the story of the husbands of the four women who, whether loving or abusing to their wives, are also beaten down by the land they have sought to conquer.
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The Homesman. Written by Glendon Swarthout Review by Jo Ann Butler. Anyone who imagines that a homesteader’s life on America’s Great Plains was all “Little House on the Prairie” hasn’t tried it. Spend six months trapped inside a dark sodhouse with sickly children, your food and firewood running low, and your nearest neighbor many ...
- Glendon Swarthout
Nov 4, 2014 · THE HOMESMAN is a story of early pioneers in 1850s American West. It celebrates the ones we hear nothing of: the brave women whose hearts and minds were broken by a life of bitter hardship. A “homesman” must be found to escort a handful of them back East to a sanitarium.
Mar 6, 1988 · A devastating story of the early pioneers in 1850s America’s West. It Celebrates the ones we hear nothing of, the brave women whose hearts and minds were broken by a life of bitter hardship. A “homesman” must be found to escort a handful of them back East to their families or to a Sanitarium.
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Feb 11, 2014 · Soon to be a major motion picture directed by Tommy Lee Jones, The Homesman is a devastating story of early pioneers in 1850s American West. It celebrates the ones we hear nothing of: the brave women whose hearts and minds were broken by a life of bitter hardship.
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Oct 23, 2015 · . The Homesman is a splendid Western novel. Glendon Swarthout wrote four Western tales (that I know of), all made into movies, and with great Western stars too. The first was a post-Custer story, 7th Cavalry, which Columbia made into a fun Randolph Scott oater in 1956.
The Homesman is a 2014 Western historical drama film set in the 1850s Midwest and directed by Tommy Lee Jones. Jones, Kieran Fitzgerald, and Wesley Oliver based the screenplay on the 1988 novel of the same name by Glendon Swarthout.
