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Far as the Eye Can See

Robert Bausch

Hardcover | Pages: 320 pages

Rating: 3.99 | 831 Users | 115 Reviews

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Title	:	Far as the Eye Can See
Author	:	Robert Bausch
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 320 pages
Published	:	November 4th 2014 by Bloomsbury USA
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Westerns. Fiction. Military History. Civil War. Adventure

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Bobby Hale is a Union veteran several times over. After the war, he sets his sights on California, but only makes it to Montana. As he stumbles around the West, from the Wyoming Territory to the Black Hills of the Dakotas, he finds meaning in the people he meets-settlers and native people-and the violent history he both participates in and witnesses. Far as the Eye Can See is the story of life in a place where every minute is an engagement in a kind of war of survival, and how two people-a white man and a mixed-race woman-in the midst of such majesty and violence can manage to find a pathway to their own humanity.

Robert Bausch is the distinguished author of a body of work that is lively and varied, but linked by a thoughtfully complicated masculinity and an uncommon empathy. The unique voice of Bobby Hale manages to evoke both Cormac McCarthy and Mark Twain, guiding readers into Indian country and the Plains Wars in a manner both historically true and contemporarily relevant, as thoughts of race and war occupy the national psyche.

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1620402599 (ISBN13: 9781620402597)

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Bobby Hale. Who would have thought a character with no real plan would sneak up and capture my attention so very much?Bobby has deserted the army several times. It's just not his cup of tea. He decides to head out west. He plans on a destination of California but Bobby tends to ramble around. He takes up with a wagon train for awhile and then when they decide to stay he goes off with a Native American friend for several years of trapping. That sounds boring doesn't it?It's not. This author

I guess I would call Robert Bausch's "Far as the Eye Can See" an agreeable book. There was nothing I thoroughly disliked, but as I reached the end I was left shrugging my shoulders, indifferent. The book starts on a high note. The prose is both lively and lyrical as the protagonist/narrator, Bobby Hale, describes watching a rider approach on the high plains and taking a pot shot at him, only to hit him and afterward discover he's a she, a young half-white/half-Indian woman. It's a wise choice

Robert Bausch's Far as the Eye Can See is weak historical fiction. It is larded with historical inaccuracies, as well as a noteworthy deafness for mid-nineteenth century American language and vocabulary. The phony vernacular in the novel's beginning, which recedes as the story progresses, is particularly off-putting. Bausch left few clichés of the Western genre untouched the cruel white man, the noble savage, the callous government and so on. One Star is all it rated with me. My recommendation:

I very much enjoy Westerns, and I particularly enjoy ones which subvert the genre to some extent. And this one does so very cleverly and effectively. Its the story of Bobby Hale, who is definitely not your typical Western hero. He spent the Civil War enrolling in the Union Army and then absconding, making some profit on each occasion, and has now, after the conflict, decided to start a new life in California. But events conspire against him, and his adventures multiply in spite of himself.

I read this in two sittings. I became immersed in the scenery and events of the west in the 1870's. It was like watching an HD video in my mind.

Written in the first person, and narrated by Civil War veteran Bobby Hale in a charming and authentic vernacular, "Far as the Eye Can See," is a rip-snorter of an oater. In this world, someone is always out to kill you, kindness is not necessarily rewarded, love comes hard, the Indian wars rage, and in the face of it all it's hard to stay human. Bobby Hale maintains his humanity even as all the forces conspire.Over the years I've grown quite fond of the Western genre, actually, since Lonesome

This was different than I thought it would be after reading the review - not in a bad way though. I think I thought it was going to be a sort of Annie Dillard type of story but it turned out to be more of a Robert Olmsted type. (I love both.) I liked the way Bausch didnt romanticize either the white peoples westward migration or the native Americans.If anyone reads this book, I hope they will take the time to read the acknowledgements at the end. In fact, even if you dont read the book the