Edward A. Grainger
ASIN: B005RTV86E
Publisher: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Pages: 107
In the tradition of Ed Gorman’s noir Westerns, Edward A. Grainger gives us Adventures of Cash Laramie and Gideon Miles, Vol. II about a pair of unconventional Deputy U.S. Marshals in 1880’s Wyoming. These seven adventures infuse the Western genre with a fresh perspective on topics like race relations and social justice while still delivering pulse-racing action in the style of classic television shows Wanted: Dead or Alive and Gunsmoke.“Just who the hell are you anyway?” a dying fugitive asks Cash Laramie in the opening story “Origin of White Deer,” evoking memories in the Outlaw Marshal of his roots. Raised by the stern Arapaho chief, Lightning Cloud, and the hardships that followed with the death of his kindhearted, adoptive mother Elina, this novella-length tale reveals how the orphaned infant went from being known as White Deer in a small tribal community to a young man living in ...