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When young Shell Tucker sees Bob Heseltine`s gang rob his father of $20,000, he knows what he has to do. While tracking the thieves and the gold from Colorado to California, Tucker is shot by the outlaws and left to die. Now Tucker`s mad enough to want to live--and to wreak vengeance on the thieves.
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Many a hardcase had died trying to tale the bank and settle an old score at the same time.
But he never counted on meeting a beautiful woman and her trail-savvy but reckless father, headed a straight for Apache country.
Now Considine and his gang can either ride like hell for the border just ahead of an angry posse, or join the old man and his daughter in a desperate last stand against blood-hungry warriors.
The choice is simple: risk the hangman's noose or an Apache bullet.From the Paperback edition.
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Set against the tragic events of the Cherokees` removal from their traditional lands in North Carolina to Indian Territory between 1835 and 1838, Mountain Windsong is a love story that brings to life the suffering and endurance of the Cherokee people. It is the moving tale of Waguli ( Whippoorwill ) and Oconeechee, a young Cherokee man and woman separated by the Trail of Tears. Just as they are about to be married, Waguli is captured by federal soldiers and, along with thousands of other Cherokees, taken west, on foot and then by steamboat, to what is now eastern Oklahoma. Though many die along the way, Waguli survives, drowning his shame and sorrow in alcohol. Oconeechee, among the few Cherokees who remain behind, hidden in the mountains, embarks on a courageous search for Waguli. Robert J. Conley makes use of song, legend, and historical documents to weave the rich texture of the story, which is told through several, sometimes contradictory, voices. The traditional narrative of the Trail of Tears is told to a young contemporary Cherokee boy by his grandfather, presented in bits and pieces as they go about their everyday chores in rural North Carolina. The telling is neither bitter nor hostile; it is sympathetic but unsentimental. An ironic third point of view, detached and often adversarial, is provided by the historical documents interspersed through the novel, from the text of the removal treaty to Ralph Waldo Emerson`s letter to the president of the United States in protest of the removal. In this layering of contradictory elements, Conley implies questions about the relationships between history and legend, storytelling and myth-making. Inspired by the lyrics of Don Grooms`s song, Whippoorwill , which open many chapters in the text, Conley has written a novel both meticulously accurate and deeply moving.
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