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Shadow on the Land: A Western Story

(Paperback)


Publishing Details

Full Title:

Shadow on the Land: A Western Story

Contributors:
ISBN:

9781620878293

Publisher:

Skyhorse Publishing

Imprint:

Skyhorse Publishing

Publication Date:

1st April 2014

Country:

United States

Classifications

Readership:

General

Genre:
Fiction/Non-fiction:

Fiction

Dewey:

FIC

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Paperback

Number of Pages:

212

Dimensions:

Width 140mm, Height 210mm, Spine 15mm

Weight:

254g

Description

Central Oregonthe last frontier. Transportation is still by stagecoach and freight wagon. There is a movement afoot for a peoples railroad, paid for by the state, to bring the benefits of rails to the area, to make it easier to ship livestock and produce, and to encourage settlement. For years the competing railroad barons, James J. Hill and Edward H. Harriman, have done nothing toward building a line in central Oregon, but now, under the impetus of the peoples railroad bill, they both set out to do just that.

Lee Dawes, a front man buying rights-of-way for the Hill interests, is charged with besting Mike Quinn, who is acquiring rights-of-way for the Harriman line. Dawes and Quinn have competed in this kind of work for years, as they have competed for women. An essential property on the way to Bend is owned by Hanna Racine, and both Dawes and Quinn want the right-of-way across her land. The two vie to come up with a strategy to seduce her into committing to the interest they represent, while an unknown third party is intent on frustrating them both through brutal violence.

Author Bio

Wayne D. Overholser won three Spur Awards from the Western Writers of America and has a long list of fine Western titles to his credit. His novels are based on a solid knowledge of the history and customs of the nineteenth-century West, particularly when set in his favorite western states, Oregon and Colorado. He died in 1996 in Boulder, Colorado.

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