Go-Ahead Rider - Hardcover

Conley, Robert J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0871316129 ISBN 13: 9780871316127

Publisher: M Evans & Co, 1990

Synopsis

George Tanner is delighted to be appointed deputy sheriff under Captain GoAhead Rider, the top lawman for the Cherokee Nation, until the prospective arrival of the railroad ignites tension and a drunken recluse is framed for murder

About this title

About the Author:

Robert J. Conley was a Spur award-winning Cherokee author. He was the Swquoyah Distinguished Professor in Cherokee Studies as well as the Founding Director of the Tsalgi Institute at Western Carolina University. He wrote about 80 books, including Colfax and Quitting Time, and is known for introducing strong Indian protagonists to the Western genre.He is also the recipient of the Western Writers of America Owen Wister Award for Lifetime Contributions to Western Literature.

From Library Journal:

Shortly after the Civil War, George Tanner, part Cherokee, with a Harvard degree, returns to his home territory in the Cherokee Nation. He is quickly deputized by Sheriff "Go-Ahead Rider," who expects trouble over a projected railroad that will affect the Cherokee capital city, Tahlequah. When an important anti-railroad man is murdered, Rider and Tanner track down the suspects. Despite a pedestrian style that slows the action and fails to give life to the characters, Conley brings many details of life in the Cherokee Nation into his story, which help to hold the reader's interest. He proves, once again, that patience and perseverance will get your man, or woman.
- Sister Avila, Acad. of Holy Angels, Minneapolis
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: M Evans & Co
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0871316129
• ISBN 13: 9780871316127
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 159