William Everett Cook was een productief schrijver van western- en avonturenromans en -verhalen. Zijn werk kenmerkt zich door een diverse reeks thema's en stijlen, die zijn gevarieerde levenservaringen weerspiegelen. Cook bracht authenticiteit en spanning in zijn verhalen, waardoor hij populair werd bij de lezers. Zijn literaire nalatenschap ligt in zijn levendige portretten van het Wilde Westen en spannende avonturen.
Young widow Sabrina Kane was a woman alone, but she was not without men. Priam Thomas, her father, had lost all hope, and it was up to her to teach him to live again. Benjamin Travis was more man than Sabrina had ever known, but she was more woman than he could handle. And Able Kane loved Sabrina more than life, but could she give herself to one of her dead husband's kin?
Meade Bigelow had sweated blood to build a mining empire in Wyoming. But he'd be dammed if he'd let thieves crush honest people just to fatten their pokes.
Charlie Two-Moon is a twentieth-century Indian fighting the same enemy that plagued his ancestors -- the greedy white man. Through his own inner drive and force of character, and equipped with a far better education than the usual reservation Indian, Charlie determines to escape from the prison of his color. He has always dreamed of being a farmer in the community where he grew up. He enlists in the Army, saves several thousand dollars from his pay as sergeant, and buys a good tract of neglected land.From the moment of his acquiring the farm, tension begins to mount as Charlie experiences the torments of white bigotry. Charlie begins to see he is developing some of these same attitudes as he tries to distance himself from the negative characteristics of his people by living like the white man. Charlie must come to accept who he is as a person before he can step into the leadership role only he can fill--one that will bring change to his community.
Western
