Dead Man’s Boot

$25.95

By Patrick Dearen

Clay Andrews feels like a dead man, adrift in darkness. But he’s also searching, and in 1869 he has ridden to the Pecos River to find answers.

Back in Central Texas, Clay’s sister died, and only on this river might he learn why. The person perhaps responsible may have fled here, but no one enters this no-man’s-land except at his own peril. Comanches are on the prowl, and across the Pecos, Mescalero Apaches range all the way to the mysterious Guadalupe Mountains.

In a dead man’s boot, Clay finds a map to rumored gold in the Guadalupes. When Comanches approach, he flees upriver and finds Lil Casner at a lone schooner. Long abused in an arranged marriage, she must fend for herself while her obsessed husband combs the Pecos for the very map Clay has discovered.

Upstream at the Bar W Ranch, two other haunted figures await. One is an experienced cowboy who has come to the Pecos for reasons that strangely parallel Clay’s. The other is a shiftless cowhand in whose mind lurks something evil and deadly.

Comanche attacks . . . a kidnapping . . . a chase through Apache country to Skeleton Cave and on to the Guadalupes. For Clay, the answers will never come unless he rides into a mountain range where Indian spirits may guard a golden hoard.

In stock

SKU: dmboot Categories: ,

Description

About the author (2016)

The author of twenty-three books, Patrick Dearen is a former award-winning reporter for two West Texas newspapers. Dearen has produced nonfiction books such as A Cowboy of the Pecos and Bitter Waters: The Struggles of the Pecos River. His research has led to thirteen novels, including The Big Drift, winner of the Spur Award of Western Writers of America, the Peacemaker Award of Western Fictioneers, the Fiction Book of the Year Award from Academy of Western Artists, and the Elmer Kelton Award from West Texas Historical Association. His other novels include When Cowboys Die, The Illegal Man, Perseverance, and To Hell or the Pecos. Dearen lives in Midland, Texas, and has backpacked the Guadalupe Mountains extensively.

Additional information

Weight 3 lbs
Dimensions 6 × 9 × 2 in
Dead Man's Boot
Dead Man’s Boot
$25.95