Cloudy in the West |
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| Author:
| Kelton, Elmer |
| ISBN: | 978-1-4299-1269-3 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 2011 |
| Publisher: | Tom Doherty Associates, LLC
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| Imprint: | Forge Books |
| Book Format: | Ebook |
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"One of the best of a new breed of Western writers who have driven the genre into new territroy." --The New York Times From the award-winning western writer Elmer Kelton comes a Cloudy in the West In the Texas backlands in 1885, twelve-year-old Joey Shipman's father dies under mysterious circumstances, and the boy is forced to live with his stepmother and Blair Meacham, a hanger-on at the farm. After the death of a black farmhand and...
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"One of the best of a new breed of Western writers who have driven the genre into new territroy." --The New York Times
From the award-winning western writer Elmer Kelton comes a Cloudy in the West
In the Texas backlands in 1885, twelve-year-old Joey Shipman's father dies under mysterious circumstances, and the boy is forced to live with his stepmother and Blair Meacham, a hanger-on at the farm. After the death of a black farmhand and friend, and another "accident" that almost takes Joey's life, the boy runs away and joins forces with his only kin--Beau Shipman, a drunk and a jailbird. Beau, along with an outlaw, a San Antonio prostitute, and a sheepman, become Joey's unlikely partners as he is trailed by their murderous Meacham , in league with Joey's stepmother in their scheme to inherit the Shipman farm.
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