Blood Lands.Blood Lands Signet Books Penguin Group USA 375 Hudson Street Hudson Street can refer to:
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , New York 10014 ISBN ISBN abbr. International Standard Book Number ISBN International Standard Book Number ISBN n abbr (= International Standard Book Number) → ISBN m : 0451218760, $5.99, 292 pp. The year is 1865. Around the town of Umberton, the Kansas Border Militia militia (məlĭsh`ə), military organization composed of citizens enrolled and trained for service in times of national emergency. Its ranks may be filled either by enlistment or conscription. are part of the reason the area is called Bloody Kansas. At the farm of Harvey Shawler, Captain Ruddell Plantz and his so called militia soldiers take what they want from the dirt farmer dirt farmer n. Informal A farmer who does all the work on his or her property. dirt farming n. . All the family are killed except young Jed who witnessed the whole bloody affair. Plantz can not allow the boy to escape to tell the regular army what took place on the farmstead. In Umberton, Colonel Bertrim Wilder, his former sergeant Shepherd Watson and the colonel's daughter Julie bring in a string of horses to sell. The colonel does this in defiance of the captain's request that all pay a tribute. The three riders are spotted by two of Plantz's gunmen who are stationed in Umberton to keep an eye on to watch. - Shak. See also: Eye the town. The two men ride out to the captain to report their finding. Plantz sends one of his men out to follow Jed's tracks. The boy is found by Wilder and his riders. The colonel refuses to turn Jed over to the militia man and instead, takes him to the Wilder Ranch. Leaving Julie to watch over the boy, the colonel and Shep ride out. Along the trail, Wilder and Watson are surrounded by the captain and his men who gun the two down. The hard cases continue on to the Wilder Ranch to search for the missing boy. Julie makes the mistake of going out to meet the militia men. The gunmen, now wearing masks, beat and rape the colonel's daughter. Warning her to leave the area, she is left lying naked in the dust as they ride off. Bounty hunter Name for a category of persons who are offered a promised gratuity in return for "hunting" down and capturing or killing a designated target, usually a person or animal. Baines Meredith comes up to the ranch and sees Julie on the ground. He takes her in to Umberton to be cared for. When the gunman's business in town is finished, he rides off after other men with bounty's on their head. Julie, once she is recovered from her ordeal, goes out in search of Meredith. At the small spread of the bounty hunter, Julie learns from Baines there are many ways to deal with the men who killed her father and violated her. She also discovers a little about herself as well. In BLOOD LANDS, Ralph Cotton has given us a fresh approach to the west and the violence that often times prevailed. BLOOD LANDS grabs you from the beginning and does not turn you loose until the climatic ending. |
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