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Bitter
Creek
Reissued
11-6-2006
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from Hilliard
& Harris
Jim Sutter, a diminutive, sad-eyed drifter
with a hidden past, rides into the South Dakota cowtown of Bitter Creek
in a time of savage drouth. Set upon and beaten by toughs, he is
rescued by widowed rancher, Jenny Olds, who he soon comes to love. Jim
decides to stay on with Jenny and soon finds himself in the middle of a
blood feud between the powerful cattlemen's association and the
sodbusters, led by fiery Lucas Brand.
Hugh Tallant
spearheads the fight for the ranchers, seeking to crush the sodbusters
that control the vital Bitter Creek River. Tallant is aided by the
notorious gunfighter Gil Fetterman and Milo Pitt, a sadistic bruiser.
And before long, Sutter is torn between his desire to protect Jenny and
the sodbusters and his own solemn oath to give up the gun.
Into this
brew rides a cast of lively characters, including courageous Nell
Vermillion, a local shopkeeper, George Armstead, a man uncertain of his
own mettle, Red West, Jenny's dying foreman, Dottie Lister, a soiled
dove, Randy Pinto, a boy who has to grow up in a hurry, and gunfighter
Jack Counts who makes a bargain with the devil.
Set in the
American Dakota territory during the 1886 drought, Carter Swart's
Bitter Creek is a compelling novel of escalating tension and blood feud
between stockmen and homesteaders, as cattle die and control of the
river becomes central to a brutal dispute involving at first fists,
then guns. Only one man has the skill in negotiation to prevent all-out
war, but he himself has given up the gun! A dramatic and exciting epic
of the Old West, Bitter Creek is deftly narrated by Alan Zimmerman and
highly recommended, thoroughly entertainting listening. 4 cassettes,
360 minutes.
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