4.11 avg rating — 283 ratings

"Wide Open is a novel based on the actual events of the legendary 1871 cattle season in Abilene, Kansas, the first of the great prairie cowtowns. A tiny exotic dot of roaring humanity on the vast vacancy of the wilderness prairie, Abilene is a place in which good and evil are so evenly matched that no one knows which will triumph. In its Texastown district, recently hired Marshall James Butler Hickok, the West’s most famous gunman, struggles to control streets teeming with thousands of hostile cowboys. Violence seems a certainty, but no one expects the tragedy that ultimately unfolds.

"...a delight, a
literate story with a wonderful cast of characters, boundless energy, and a perfect sense of place and time."
-- Johnny D. Boggs, Spur Award-winning author of EAST OF THE BORDER and NORTHFIELD"

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