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In his National Guide Award–winning story Augustus, John Williams discovered the secrets of old Rome. With Butcher’s Crossing, his very intelligent, superbly created american, Williams dismantles the myths of contemporary America.It may be the 1870s, and May Andrews, fired up by Emerson to find “an unique regards to character,” falls out-of Harvard and heads west. He wipes up in Butcher’s Crossing, a little Kansas town on the borders of nowhere. Butcher’s Crossing is saturated in sleepless guys searching for ways to create cash and ways to spend it.