Roaring Acres: A Western Story (Thorndike Large Print Western Series) - Hardcover

Holmes, L. P.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1410413500 ISBN 13: 9781410413505

Publisher: Thorndike Pr, 2009

Synopsis

Along with hundreds of other land boomers, David Salkeld and partner Buck Custer sold their ranch and prepared to move their cattle herd to Gallatin Basin, which has just been opened to new settlement. Dave and some Flying Diamond cowpunchers are going to stake out their claims before Buck and his men move in with the herd. But most of the boomers are farmers, and the Converse cattle outfit turns them against cattlemen even before the land rush starts.

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The story opens with a land rush, a rather ingenious method of getting all the relevant characters tossed together without having to divulge much, if any, muddlesome backstory. Half-a-million acres have been opened for settlement, and an anxious, teeming mob awaits the sun's rising, when they can hurtle across the plains and stake their claims. The land is in the Gallatin Basin, which is big enough for a lot of things but quickly proves not big enough for two rival ranching outfits, a venomous gunslinger, a family of bitter frontier trash, insufferably suspicious sodbusters, and exactly one pretty gal all at once. In this generously action-heavy tale, Holmes hardly lets more than a page or two flit past without letting fly either a fist or bullet, all the while tending a steady boil of tension as the community settles itself disjointedly from the free-for-all land scramble to the rough but welcome sketches of order. Law, presumably, to come. Chipman, Ian

About this edition

• Publisher: Thorndike Pr
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1410413500
• ISBN 13: 9781410413505
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 311