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Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
462 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Promises of free land lured thousands to stake their claim to the vast American plains. They built make-do homes and put all they had into improving the land. Very often romantic thoughts took a back burner to priorities having to do with the land. In these nine novellas, individuals are forced to encounter romance when neighbor helps neighbor, when land ownership is debated, and when natural disaster blows them off course. Readers will enjoy the...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
294 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Collected here are all the Western short stories of Richard S. Wheeler, tales which span the Western landscape from Montana to Arizona and Washington to Wyoming in a period that covers the late 19th century through modern times. Here are a wide cast of characters -- madams, miners, morticians, detectives, newsman, and lawman. Some characters are drawn from history -- the Earp brothers, Mark Twain, William Wright, a reporter for the Territorial Enterprise,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
345 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Under Heaven's Own Blue is a collection of short fiction. In 'Truth and Principle,' detective Henry Tresh helps a woman find the truth about the death of her son. In 'Double Deceit,' detective Dunbar is tracking a malefactor who killed a woman and is now conducting a medical practice without a license. In 'Bitter Range,' ranch hand Orin Blake becomes caught up in an intrigue in which a former ranch hand is discovered to be having an affair with the...
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