Toby Ryker.Toby Ryker Steven Merrill Ulmen Privately Published/Lulu.com 3711 Willow Heights Drive SW, Rochester, MN 55902 1411660390 $10.95 www.amazon.com The debut western novel of author Steven Merrill Ulmen, Toby Ryker is the story of a colorful, likeable like·a·ble adj. Variant of likable. Adj. 1. likeable - (of characters in literature or drama) evoking empathic or sympathetic feelings; "the sympathetic characters in the play" likable, appealing, sympathetic old ex- cavalry scout Cavalry Scout (or MOS 19-D) is a job title in the United States Army and originated with the United States Cavalry. The cavalry scout leads, serves, or assists as a member of scout crew, squad, section, or platoon in reconnaissance, security, and other combat operations. , and former mountain man who drifts into Laramie, Wyoming, only to get himself involved in a saloon brawl (which he stirred up just for the fun of it!). Toby wins friends by offering to pay for the bar room damages and buy drinks for the house. He then departs only to moments later collapse from a heart attack. Waking up in the office of the town doctor, Toby is informed that he is dying and must adopt a quiet, peaceable peace·a·ble adj. 1. Inclined or disposed to peace; promoting calm: They met in a peaceable spirit. 2. Peaceful; undisturbed. way of life for what time remains to him. The trouble is, Toby is wanted for a murder in Deadwood Deadwood, city (1990 pop. 1,830), seat of Lawrence co., W S.Dak.; settled 1876 after discovery of gold. A Black Hills tourist center, it is also a trade hub for a lumbering, stock-raising, and mining region. , Dakota Territory, has a price on his head, and a rather nasty 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. named John McQuiston after him. Toby Ryker is a smoothly written and generally terrific novel that will leave the reader eagerly looking forward to Steven Ulmen's next foray into western fiction. |
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