The Last Hunt (western novel)
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The Last Hunt was written by Milton Lott
while he was in one of George R. Stewart
's classes. Lott worked on the novel while in school, and received a fellowship from Houghton Mifflin to finish the book. The book was made into a movie
. It was published in German by the Deutsche Hausbücherei in 1956 as Die letzte Jagd.
The story is set in the 19th century, and deals with the lives of two men, whose cattle herd is wiped out by a storm. The men go into the buffalo hunting business. The novel deals with their life in the trade, including a fight with Indians and the shooting of a white buffalo.
Milton Lott
Milton Lott was an author of western novels. He grew up in the Snake River Valley, in Idaho and attended University of California, Berkeley. While there he started writing his first published novel, The Last Hunt. He worked on the novel while attending an English class taught by George R....
while he was in one of George R. Stewart
George R. Stewart
George Rippey Stewart was an American toponymist, a novelist, and a professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley...
's classes. Lott worked on the novel while in school, and received a fellowship from Houghton Mifflin to finish the book. The book was made into a movie
The Last Hunt
The Last Hunt is a 1956 MGM western film directed by Richard Brooks and produced by Dore Schary. The screenplay was by Richard Brooks from a novel by Milton Lott...
. It was published in German by the Deutsche Hausbücherei in 1956 as Die letzte Jagd.
The story is set in the 19th century, and deals with the lives of two men, whose cattle herd is wiped out by a storm. The men go into the buffalo hunting business. The novel deals with their life in the trade, including a fight with Indians and the shooting of a white buffalo.