Go-Ahead Rider (An Evans Novel of the West) by Robert J. Conley

By Robert J. Conley

When fresh Harvard graduate George Tanner returns domestic to Tahlequah within the Cherokee state, he unearths the city bustling and lodgings scarce. The council is in consultation and everybody is in town.

Captain Go-Ahead Rider, the district sheriff, bargains Tanner instant employment as a deputy. Rider senses difficulty as a few key concerns arise for vote sooner than the Council. the massive issue—and the main debatable one—is no matter if the railroad may be allowed to come back into town.

Mix Hail, the swing vote at the factor, all of sudden disappears, and Tanner unearths himself smack in the midst of big-money politics and his personal nation’s issues. because the lawmen style via a pile of blackmail, revenge, and bootlegging, they discover a bad plot via a few of the town’s major electorate. Tanner learns the right way to be a lawman, whereas even as experiencing the enjoyment of being domestic, in his personal land, together with his personal humans, conversing his personal language.

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