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Overview
When George Tanner, recent Harvard graduate, returns home to Tahlequah in the Cherokee nation, Captain Go-Ahead Rider, the district sheriff, offers him employment as a deputy. Rider senses trouble as some key issues come up before the Council, the most controversial being whether the railroad should be allowed to come to town. Tanner soon finds himself smack in the middle of big money politics. As the two lawmen sort through a trail of blackmail, revenge and bootlegging, they uncover a nasty plot by some of the town's leading citizens. Tanner learns how to be a lawman, while at the same time experiencing the joy of being home, in his own land.A member of the Cherokee tribe himself, author Conley uses his special knowledge of his people and their traditions to bring to life the Indian world of the West. A Harvard educated mixed-blood Cherokee gets an education of another kind when, upon his return to his Oklahoma home town, he is deputized and sent out on the trail of a murderer. Evans.
Editorials
Library Journal
Shortly after the Civil War, George Tanner, part Cherokee, with a Harvard degree, returns to his home territory in the Cherokee Nation. He is quickly deputized by Sheriff ``Go-Ahead Rider,'' who expects trouble over a projected railroad that will affect the Cherokee capital city, Tahlequah. When an important anti-railroad man is murdered, Rider and Tanner track down the suspects. Despite a pedestrian style that slows the action and fails to give life to the characters, Conley brings many details of life in the Cherokee Nation into his story, which help to hold the reader's interest. He proves, once again, that patience and perseverance will get your man, or woman.-- Sister Avila, Acad. of Holy Angels, MinneapolisBook Details
Published
August 1, 1992
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pages
192
Format
Paperbound
ISBN
9780671743659