A sequel to Twain's great American classic follows a grown-up Huckleberry, now sheriff of a Wyoming cowtown, as racial tensions sparked by a black schoolteacher's clandestine relationship with the white daughter of a prominent citizen make his job next to impossible.
Richard White is the author of many acclaimed histories, including the groundbreaking study of the transcontinentals, Railroaded, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Francis Parkman Prize, and a Pulitzer Prize finalist. He is Margaret Byrne Professor of American History, Emeritus, at Stanford University, and lives near Palo Alto, California.