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Shepherd Family Series #1
This Wild Land
The first in the saga of the Shepherds-- a hot-blooded family who challenged the western wilderness-- and won.
The Shepherds had a passion for life, a capacity for love-- and they knew what they wanted!
Gerald Shepherd began cultivating friends in high places and accumulating gold while he still served in the Union Army. He wanted land, Western land, enough for his family. Then he left Ohio and trekked West to claim it.
With him went his brood: his lusty sons and the extraordinary women they loved: a mulatto beauty, an Irish haired girl, and a wealthy widow almost as old as their mother-- the passionate Evelyn. Daughter Ruth would find her man along the way.
They were the Shepherds, ready to use any law on the books, connive, buy friendship, fight the Indians, and even Nature itself to fence in the Haunted Range-- the Indians' sacred land, the Shepherds dream...
The Shepherds had a passion for life, a capacity for love-- and they knew what they wanted!
Gerald Shepherd began cultivating friends in high places and accumulating gold while he still served in the Union Army. He wanted land, Western land, enough for his family. Then he left Ohio and trekked West to claim it.
With him went his brood: his lusty sons and the extraordinary women they loved: a mulatto beauty, an Irish haired girl, and a wealthy widow almost as old as their mother-- the passionate Evelyn. Daughter Ruth would find her man along the way.
They were the Shepherds, ready to use any law on the books, connive, buy friendship, fight the Indians, and even Nature itself to fence in the Haunted Range-- the Indians' sacred land, the Shepherds dream...
384 pages, Paperback
First published May 1, 1979
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