Edward Massey
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"From the moment the wounded boy in the wagon interrupts his swearing-in, Deputy Mark Simms, in line to be the third Sheriff Simms of Summit County, devotes his life to pursuing cattle rustlers turned butchers who become murderous meatpackers in the early twentieth century. Eighteen today, the deputy grows as a determined lawman. Tom Hixson, the hired hand who shot the boy, grows as the meatpackers muscle. The close of World War I ends the monopoly,...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"Immigrant cooper named constable and then sheriff investigates a girl murdered in her bed and tracks her husband who escaped in Grandma's buggy. Capturing him in the high mountains in Bonanza Flat, the founding sheriff decides not to kill the son of a bitch and sets in motion a long and broken path to a tradition of justice where none existed before in Summit County, Utah Territory. Capture comes swift. Conviction takes longer. Execution drags on...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
July 24, 1883. Deputy John Willford Simms wrests the bloodied star from his murdered father's chest and pins it on, "My father's star makes me sheriff." The mayor protests, "You'll be a fugitive sheriff." They both know John Willford has a bounty on his head because he took a second wife at the Mormon bishop's bidding fourteen years before. It matters little. Across the high mountains of Summit County, Utah Territory, Sheriff Simms hunts his father's...
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"As the sun goes down behind the long, low western horizon, imagine a gathering of friends who write stories, share stories, encourage new stories, and visit about the craft of fiction. As a reader, you'll find stories about family, lost and found. Tales of Civil War and reconciliation. Gunfighters. Bounty hunters. Small towns and cemeteries. You'll find ghosts, real and imagined. Adventure and romance. You'll make new friends and rekindle old flames....
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