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Gabriel Lynch, a fifteen-year-old African American boy living in the West of the 1870s, escapes the racial strife of the Reconstruction Era by running away from home to become a cowboy.
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Set in the 1870s, the novel tells the tale of Gabriel Lynch, an African American youth who settles with his family in the plains of Kansas. Dissatisfied with the drudgery of homesteading and growing increasingly disconnected from his family, Gabriel forsakes the farm for a life of higher adventure. Thus begins a forbidding trek into a terrain of austere beauty, a journey begun in hope, but soon laced with danger and propelled by a cast of brutal characters.
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