Independence
An American Frontier Western (with romance …)
1. Welcome to Independence
Abigail McMann resisted the urge to run. She secured the stack of newspapers under her arm and picked up her pace. Her leather ankle boots rang out a staccato rhythm on the boardwalk, so new she could still smell the cedar. The smell of progress.
2. On behalf of the Independence Ladies Benevolent Society
Hale Alcorn was one of the few white men who regularly visited Independence. As an immigration agent for the Southwestern Pacific Railroad, Hale recognized the unmet desire among American settlers for land to call home.
3. He was the shootist
Owen only signed on to play a homesteader husband in Wild Will’s Wild West Show because developing his recipe for Lander’s Bourbon Whiskey proved more expensive than he anticipated. Since he stowed away on a steamboat out of Natchez, Mississippi, when he was fourteen, he had become a man used to carrying just what his horse could. Yet, somehow, in the l…
4. "To be good at something"
The buffalo in Wild Will’s Wild West Show were the first buffalo Owen ever saw. Sure, he’d heard about the herds that once turned the plains black. But William “Wild Will” Dockett explained that much of the money Will saved to create his traveling show came from killing buffalo for the Kansas Pacific Railroad to feed its laborers. Will said he killed mo…
That is a graduation diploma from Wilberforce University
Atlas Reed’s large, dark fingers pressed the delicate papers down on the wood desk. “I regret that you have been swindled, Mr. Timmins.”