Dark Prairie: A Dunbar Novel - John D. Nesbitt

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Résumé :
A Spur Award-winning Author In the 1890s, a stranger named Dunbar rides into the town of Winsome, Wyoming. He goes to work at the Little Six ranch and begins to look into the affairs of Tut Whipple, a water project developer who built a dam near the town. The investigation starts with missing cattle, but extends to the disappearance of a young girl. Whipple's men come after him, first with fists and then with guns ? leading to a showdown on the dark prairie.

Biographie:
John D. Nesbitt is the author of more than forty books, including traditional westerns, crossover western mysteries, contemporary western fiction, retro/noir fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. He has won the Western Writers of America Spur Award four times-twice for paperback novel, once for short story, and once for poem. He has won the Western Fictioneers Peacemaker Award twice-once for novel and once for short story. He has been a finalist for the Spur Award twice, the Peacemaker five times, and the Will Rogers Medallion Award seven times. He has also received two creative writing fellowships with the Wyoming Arts Council-once for fiction, once for nonfiction-and four awards for fiction with the Wyoming State Historical Society. He is Professor Emeritus at Eastern Wyoming College. Visit his website at www.johndnesbitt.com