04.04 John Williams and BUTCHER'S CROSSING (1960, 2022)

In 1865—or perhaps it was 1833—Horace Greeley gave the famous advice to “go west, young man, and grow up with the country.” He said it in print—or to a young acquaintance—like most legends of the American West, the details are vague. All the same, over the course of the 19th Century many young men answered his call. One of them was Will Andrews, the protagonist of the novel we will be discussing today. Will is a young man, fresh out of college, with more dollars than sense, looking to discover himself in the great untamed territory of the West. What he finds might be too much for him as he faces thirst, blizzards, torrential rivers. He goes out a boy; if he’s lucky enough to survive, he might just return a man. Today, on The Projectionist’s Lending Library, it’s Butcher’sCrossing.From Booth's recommendations, here's the Pillar of Garbage video on Brick.