BEFORE KATNIS EVERDEEN, THERE WAS ...

ECHO SACKETT
https://www.amazon.com/Ride-River-Sacketts-Book-5/dp/B00005455H/
Last Post, I asked how well could a man write through the eyes of a woman anyway?

Louis L'Amour did a fine job.

In fact, you can buy the audible book for just $4.99!  How cool is that?   

The wit and wisdom of Echo:
"Judging by the size of his stomach, he was a very important man."
 –Echo Sackett in Ride the River, Ch 4
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“How many are there? Of the Sacketts, I mean?" the bully asked.

“Nobody rightly knows, but even one Sackett is quite a few,” I said, pulling back the hammer of the pistol in my purse.
–Echo Sackett in Ride the River, Ch 19
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"Who the devil are you?"

"Not the devil, Mr. Sardust, but like him, I can open the gates to hell.  I'm Echo Sackett. You ready to go?"
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It is 1840
Sixteen-year-old Echo Sackett had never been far from her Tennessee home —

until she made the long trek to Philadelphia to collect an inheritance.

Echo could take care of herself as well as any Sackett man, but James White, a sharp city lawyer,

figured that cheating the money from the young country girl would be like taking candy from a baby.

If he couldn't hoodwink Echo out of the cash, he'd just steal it from her outright. And if she put up a fight?

There were plenty of accidents that could happen to a country girl on her first trip to the big city 

or on the journey back to her home miles away in the wilderness.

But never bet against Echo Sackett.