Kinch Riley / Indian Territory
Books / Paperback
ISBN: 0312948530 / Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks, August 2007
Hired by the ever-expanding railroads to protect the work crews as they head into Cherokee Territory, a gunslinger is torn between a Cherokee and a white woman and between the railroad's demands and the Indian's needs in Indian Territory, and in Kinch Riley, in 1871 Newton, Kansas, a young boy named Kinch Riley becomes a legend thanks to a deadly shootout that leaves six men dead. Original.
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KINCH RILEYNewton, Kansas, 1871: One is a young drifter alone in a lawless land. The other is an aged gunfighter well-versed in the bawdy wonders of a wide-open boomtown. When these two lost souls come together one August night, and battle a band of Texas outlaws, the legend of Kinch Riley will be born…. INDIAN TERRITORYWhen hired gun John Ryan heads into Indian Territory with a brawling crew of railroad workers, a battle of bloodshed and treachery ensues. But when he later meets the proud Cherokees—and the beautiful daughter of and embattled chief—Ryan sees for himself how his employer’s steel rails are splitting the heart of a people’s last home. Can his conscience keep him from pulling the trigger?
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