Blood on the saddle / Frontier and pioneer life Murder
Cushman, Dan,
Blood on the saddle / Dan Cushman. - Large print edition. - 480 pages (large print) ; 24 cm. - Sagebrush Western. .
Montana Territory is about to become a state. The Buttons family, among its earlier pioneers, still controls what is known as the Button Reserve. The Omaha & Montana Cattle Company wants that land, and for years their land war against the Button family has been led by John Gannaway. Billy Buttons and his younger brother, Clyde, are the only Button men to have survived that war. Now Gannaway has been murdered, and Billy is accused of the crime - and forgery and cattle rustling besides. With their ranch staked out, and the sheriff asking for his surrender, Billy tells his mother that he's riding into town to turn himself in. At his trial, Billy Buttons has Company men lined up against him. But on his side is the brilliant defence attorney Thomas F. Boe, whose record of acquittals is legendary.
9780753153659 (pbk.)
Frontier and pioneer life--Montana--Fiction.
Murder--Montana--Fiction.
Montana--Fiction.
Western stories.
Legal stories.
Large type books.
Blood on the saddle / Dan Cushman. - Large print edition. - 480 pages (large print) ; 24 cm. - Sagebrush Western. .
Montana Territory is about to become a state. The Buttons family, among its earlier pioneers, still controls what is known as the Button Reserve. The Omaha & Montana Cattle Company wants that land, and for years their land war against the Button family has been led by John Gannaway. Billy Buttons and his younger brother, Clyde, are the only Button men to have survived that war. Now Gannaway has been murdered, and Billy is accused of the crime - and forgery and cattle rustling besides. With their ranch staked out, and the sheriff asking for his surrender, Billy tells his mother that he's riding into town to turn himself in. At his trial, Billy Buttons has Company men lined up against him. But on his side is the brilliant defence attorney Thomas F. Boe, whose record of acquittals is legendary.
9780753153659 (pbk.)
Frontier and pioneer life--Montana--Fiction.
Murder--Montana--Fiction.
Montana--Fiction.
Western stories.
Legal stories.
Large type books.