Dark Prairie - Hardcover

Nesbitt, John D.

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Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1432827502 ISBN 13: 9781432827502

Publisher: Five Star, 2013

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A stranger named Dunbar comes to the town of Winsome‚ on the plains of Wyoming‚ in the 1890's. He goes to work at the Little Six ranch and begins to look into the affairs of Tut Whipple‚ a water project developer.
The investigation starts small‚ with the tracking down of stolen beef but extends to the disappearance of a young girl named Annie Mora. Dunbar probes here and there‚ developing an acquaintance with Whipple's wife and an interest in a dam and reservoir Whipple built near the town.
Whipple's men come after Dunbar‚ first with fists and then with guns‚ until Whipple can no longer avoid a showdown on the dark prairie.

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Callow young Grey Wharton works at the sleepy Little Six ranch, from which he manages to run errands to sleepy little Winsome, Wyoming. In town, Grey invents excuses to see Ruth Whipple, the pretty wife of an engineer, Tut Whipple, who’s developing a controversial new dam that will split up a lot of range land. Grey’s too shy and proper for an overt romance, so Ruth and he haven’t much to talk about except the disappearance of a young Mexican girl, Annie Mora. Tut doesn’t seem to care about Grey’s visits, nor, at first, does he raise a fuss when an older man named Dunbar hires on at the Little Six and calls on Ruth, too. Little Six cattle begin disappearing. Something doesn’t add up about Tut Whipple. The mystery deepens when Dunbar, enlisting Gary as his assistant, shadows Whipple’s big project, ostensibly to investigate the rustling. Tempers flare with Whipple’s crew, a Little Six hand is shot—and then a terrible truth emerges. A solid, compact western from the always-reliable Nesbitt. --John Mort

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