THE BALLAD OF CAT BALLOU

by Roy Chanslor ‧ RELEASE DATE: N/A

Based on a presumable bunkhouse ballad, this creates a new legend out of the old west- that of high spirited, hot blooded Cat Ballou who rode to avenge the death of her parents. Cat, like her mother before her, was to be loved by one man and lusted after by many others- and was left with an unappeasable hatred when her mother and father were killed by a herd deliberately stampeded by the rancher Adam Field. Jailed- for the deliberate and deserved killing of Field, Cat sends an appeal to an unknown lover, the outlaw Clay Boone, who comes to save her and takes her to his mountain roost. Clay is later jailed and Cat is left to bear his child alone- and endure the unreasonable passion of his younger brother. Again she too is behind bars- and again Clay saves her-this time to take her out of the territory toward the start of a new life in Oregon... Flashing guns compete here with the fleshier temptations and the prairie assumes- not a more civilized- but a contemporary allure. Unbridled.

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Publisher: Little, Brown

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Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 15, 1956

Categories: FICTION