On a frame-house porch above Cottonwood Creek, the daughter of Elder Conklin, a hard and canny Kansas farmer, stands with the new schoolmaster as the prairie sun sets. The title story and its companions, including the tale of a sheriff and his partner and of an outlaw’s escape, look unsentimentally at religion, greed, desire and violence on the frontier.
Bold, realistic Western stories by the editor and memoirist who knew the frontier firsthand. Download the free EPUB.