BLESSED MCGILL

by Edwin Shrake ‧ RELEASE DATE: Jan. 19, 1967

This shaggy story lopes clear across the Southwest and Mexico of the 19th century in the fiddlefooted steps of one Peter Hermano McGill, whose transition from gambler, goldhunter to saint is recorded in the journal kept in a mission just before his expected death. This at the hands of one-eyed Octavio, just a ""stinking savage,"" the bandit whose life he had saved as a boy, who had returned it in kind but was responsible for the barbarous killing of McGill's good friend Barney, and who later burned McGill's house to the ground, along with his wife and youngster... Blessed McGill--well he's one of those cussed characters who figured in the subculture of the West, reincarnated here with middling humor and quite some vigah.

Pub Date: Jan. 19, 1967

ISBN: 0979839106

Page Count: -

Publisher: Doubleday

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Jan. 1, 1967

Categories: FICTION