5/12/2023 0 Comments Wide Open by Larry BjornsonAcceptance, however, has a condition-cruel intolerance. Surrounded by a tight circle of friends, Will is confident he understands his world. Violence seems a certainty.įor young Will Merritt, though, Abilene is his first real home. In its Texastown district, recently hired marshal, Wild Bill Hickok, the West's most famous gunman, struggles to control streets teeming with thousands of drunken, restive cowboys. As the shipping point for immense numbers of cattle driven north from Texas, Abilene is an exotic boomtown. Saturated in greed and easy money, it is a place in which good and evil are so evenly matched that no one knows which will triumph. Abilene is a town like no other, the first of its kind. Winner of the Kansas Notable Book Award from the State Library of Kansas Based on actual events, this is the epic story of 1871 Abilene, Kansas.Deep in the vast vacancy of the wilderness prairie, a tiny ferocious speck of humanity is famous and infamous throughout the world. Winner of the Western Fictioneers Peacemaker Award for Best Western First Novel Winner of the Forward National Literature Award for historical fiction Winner of the Western Writers Of America Spur Award
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