And I love Ken Kesey books. Anytime I read Ken Kesey it makes me want to write my own weird stuff but this one's a story about the first time the saddle was won @ the Pendleton Round Up, This book is a very well-written story, with an interesting plot apparently based on a true story, and several interesting characters. OTHER BOOKS. I found it a good short read. Other characters in the story; Buffalo Bill Cody, Jackson Sundown (native American rodeo performer), Prairie Rose Henderson, and the narrator - John Lee Spain were all real people too. To get the free app, enter your mobile phone number. Last Go Round (1994) is a novel written by Ken Kesey and Ken Babbs. It is, however, vastly different from Kesey's two better-known novels, "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest" and "Sometimes A Great Notion". This is a fun read! It's a story that is mainly interesting in the telling. In her early 70s, Sorrels's voice is as good and wise as ever, and maybe even better and even smarter. Listen free to Leadbelly – My Last Go Round (Packin' Trunk, Honey, I'm All Out & Down and more). July 1st 1995 I would be very happy to purchase from this seller again. When you're on your last go 'round They look away when you're falling down You've gone too far Nobody's laughing now You try and talk but no sense comes out You're staring at the passers by The tiny town of Pendleton is swollen to bursting that memorable weekend and bristling with colorful characters like Buffalo Bill Cody, wrestler Frank "The Cruel Crusher" Gotch, cowgirl Prairie Rose Henderson, and a formidable medicine man named Parson Montanic. His two children's books are Little Tricker the Squirrel Meets Big Double the Bear and The Sea Lion. by Penguin Books. It's the story of “The Last Roundup” on the Pendleton Ranch in 1911. good true story nicely embellished by Kesey. I loved the characters and it is one of my favorite books to give to friends who are outdoor type loving animals and independent characters both male and female. From the teepees along the river to the teeming saloons on Main Street, Round Up fever blazes like a prairie fire. Kesey's humor is exquisitely displayed, descriptions are bigger than the silver (or HD) screen, and the whole thing makes you want to be a cowboy/cowgirl. Great storyline includes African-Amercian cowboy, I enjoyed the character development of this person. What's more, it seems for the most part to be missing the "hero against conformist society" theme of those novels; there's a touch of it to be found but only a touch. He spins an entertaining yarn populated with many famous western characters, like Buffalo Bill Cody, around the real episode of a 1911 competition between George Fletcher, an African American cowboy, Jackson Sundown, a Nez Pierce bronco buster, and John Spain, a southerner. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Prime members enjoy FREE Delivery and exclusive access to music, movies, TV shows, original audio series, and Kindle books. It's just a good, solid story. I had fallin' off the reading wagon but this book has spurred me back aboard. Just blame my taste but I didn't finish Last Go Round nor did my husband. Kesey's choice to use a kind of folksy dialect to tell this story mingling fact and fiction makes it difficult to read, at least for me. When will your next stimulus check arrive? I remember very little of the events themselves, but I remember the buildup to the event every year: the parade with the Round Up Princesses and various tribes, the RVs rolling in from states on the far side of the Rockies, and the week we got off of school during Round Up. It was the authors that drew me to this book--having thoroughly enjoyed all things Kesey, I was fascinated by a pairing with Babbs, another Merry Prankster. Watch the video for I'm On My Last Go-Round from Leadbelly's My Last Go Round for free, and see the artwork, lyrics and similar artists. A fictionalized account of an early Pendleton Round-up, that featured a Nez Perce, an African-American, and a white southerner in a saddlebronc ride-off after a three way tie for the all-round title. This book is a very well-written story, with an interesting plot apparently based on a true story, and several interesting characters.