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Butcher’s Crossing, set in the 1870s, follows William Andrews, a Harvard student who abandons academia for adventure in the American Midwest. In the frontier town of Butcher's Crossing, Kansas, he joins a buffalo-hunting expedition through Colorado led by Miller. Facing harsh conditions and the extinction of buffalo, the group endures severe hardship, returning to a desolate town and grappling with personal and economic ruin.