This was fine enough I couldn t quite figure out what year it was If i missed that that s on me I was hoping for a little action in this story This seemed to wrap up very neatly and given the racial tones to the narrative you would think there would be a little less forgiveness and a little bloodshed Also the main antagonist of Mr Bates got off very easily 81
A brand new Western adventure from Charles Ray When Rusty turns in a captured outlaw to the sheriff of a small town in Colorado the sheriff talks him into going after a man who killed two of the town s citizens over a card game and fled Rusty doesn t need the money but he loves a challenge and when he learns that the fugitive headed east toward Kansas he s intrigued In Kansas he tracks the outlaw to an area near the town of Nicodemus a small town that has been established by Black settlers from the former Confederate states who had suffered when Reconstruction ended and the Union army troops were no longer protecting them in places like Alabama Arkansas Mississippi Louisiana and Texas What they thought would be the promised land though has not lived up to expectations Rusty learns that a greedy land speculator has hired professional gunfighters to try to chase them off their new homes He s still determined to capture the wanted man but first he decides to help the citizens of Nicodemus secure their land claims Rusty Rhodes Bounty Hunter The Promised Land A Western AdventureIve been writing since my teens In addition to writing for several newspapers and magazines in the US Europe Asia and Africa Ive written two books on leadership and a number of fiction works Im also a published poet photographer and artist I write in several genres reflecting my broad reading tastes I spent 20 years in the army retiring in 1982 and becoming a diplomat Ive worked in about 10 countries and traveled to about 30 mining each for material to write about I ve been writing since my teens In addition to writing for several newspapers and magazines in the US Europe Asia and Africa I ve written two books on leadership and a number of fiction works I m also a published poet photographer and artist I write in several genres reflecting my broad reading tastes I spent 20 years in the army retiring in 1982 and becoming a diplomat I ve worked in about 10 countries and traveled to about 30 mining each for material to write about site_link.