![]() ![]() Merritt, has a secret, something hidden far out in the remote prairie. With the scaffolding of his life beginning to wobble, Will realizes that his flamboyant father, J.T. But Will finds himself torn when he meets the beautiful and beguiling Anna, whose dignity and determination test his deepest beliefs. And no one is more intolerant than Will’s best friend, Jasper, who delights in tormenting any farmer he encounters. ![]() The townsfolk resent the immigrant settlers whose new farms are slicing up the rangeland. Yet even with Hickok as marshal, Abilene boils with deep divisions. Idolizing the cowboys who flood the streets each summer, Will and his friends are drawn to Abilene’s exotic Texastown district-a powderkeg of saloons and brothels so notorious that the mayor has hired the West’s most famous gunman, Wild Bill Hickok, to police its streets. Fifteen-year-old Will Merritt is fiercely protective of the cattle trade that made his father’s fortune. This is the epic story of Abilene, Kansas, at a time when the cowboy is king, and good and evil are so evenly matched that no one knows which will triumph.Ībilene, 1871. ![]()
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