Gaston, a boom town on a dry Western plain that began as a Mormon halt camp, has been left to a political ring after its boom collapses. When a railroad is caught in the ring’s schemes, a young lawyer is drawn into a contest of bought legislators, oil-monopoly laws and courtroom manoeuvres, with a love affair among the visiting Bostonians to complicate it.
A briskly plotted novel of political corruption in the railroad West, written in the muckraking years. Download the free EPUB.