Turpentine

A young man’s misadventures from privileged Connecticut to the Wild West and back make for “an entertaining romp through the American 1870s” ( Publishers Weekly ).   Sick and restless, Edward Turrentine Bayard III leaves his Connecticut home in 1871 to recover in a private sanitarium out west. But when his destination proves to be nothing more than a rickety outpost on the Nebraskan plains, he becomes a buffalo skinner instead. After returning East, Ned teams up with a lady cigar-roller nam