NMLP P-000051 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

The Big Sky

A.B. Guthrie Jr. · William Sloane Associates (New York) · 1947

US William Sloane Associates (1947) is the true first—the landmark mountain-man Western and first of Guthrie's series. Guthrie's bibliography makes the Sloane first the cornerstone; later Houghton Mifflin issues are reprints.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-000051 for "The Big Sky" by A.B. Guthrie Jr. (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-000051, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).