Episode: 105 – [Review] Butcher's Crossing

What if the wilderness doesn't destroy you—but reveals who you really are?This week on Paperback Friends, we return to John Williams to review Butcher's Crossing, the novel that came before Stoner and helped establish Williams as one of the great overlooked American writers.We follow Will Andrews as he abandons his comfortable life for a buffalo hunt deep in the American West, only to discover that the greatest struggle isn't against nature, but against himself.A quiet novel about the wilderness, freedom, and that everything has a price – man and buffalo.Type: Review | Book: Butcher's Crossing | Writer: John Williams