Frontier: Powder River

The epic saga of the men and women who fought for a new life on the American frontier.

In 1891 the Dixon family is building a future in booming Bozeman. Twin brothers Louis and Caleb Dixon, high spirited and supremely confident, dream of becoming ranchers along the Powder River—a dream that plunges them into a deadly range war on a land already blood-stained by massacre and loss. They have no way of knowing that joining the modest T Stone ranch in the foothills of the Bighorn Mountains will put them in the gunsights of hired killers and will bring them face to face with a depraved, sadistic murderer.

Flushed with courage, the boys are willing to ride and fight against a better-armed enemy—but then this range war touches too close to home. For the Dixon boys—for the whole Dixon family—what hangs in the balance is survival, or justice, and the hope for the future on this harsh and beautiful land.

A graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism, S.K. Salzer’s first novel, Up From Thunder, a tale of the Civil War Missouri featuring the young Jesse James, was published in 2010. Salzer’s short story “Cornflower Blue” won the 2009 Spur Award from Western Writers of America (WWA) for short fiction and the 2010 John Newman Edwards Award from the Friends of the James Farm. Salzer’s short story, “The Saint of Pox Island,” published in the March/April 2012 issue of Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, was a finalist in WWA’s 2013 short fiction competition. S.K. lives in Missouri.