Here is a rich and serious novel of the violent West.
About the Author Frederick Manfred (1912-94) is the author of twenty-four novels, including the five-volume series The Buckskin Man Tales, which includes Conquering Horse , Lord Grizzly (finalist for the 1954 National Book Award), and Scarlet Plume , all available in Bison Books editions, as well as King of Spades ..
Frederick Manfred (1912-94) is the author of twenty-four novels, including the five-volume series The Buckskin Man Tales, which includes Conquering Horse, Lord Grizzly (finalist for the 1954 National Book Award), and Scarlet Plume, all available in Bison Books editions, as well as King of Spades.
Riders of Judgment is the final book in Frederick Manfred\'s five-volume series, The Buckskin Man Tales.
One man\'s inner struggle becomes a fight to turn the cattle kingdom into a free country for the small stockman.
Then one spring morning the cattle barons invade his territory, and Cain\'s hesitancy vanishes.
He is loved by a woman but rejects her because he feels unworthy of her love.
He is a law-abiding man by instinct yet has to take the law into his own hands.
He desires peace yet is forced to wear a gun.
Cain-who is in a sense a cowboy Hamlet-is torn by conflicts within himself.
To the oldest brother, Cain, falls the lot of avenging the murder of his father, grandfather, and brother.
Riders of Judgment centers on the three Hammett brothers and their cousin Rosemary, whom all three love.
Full of the authentic sounds and colors of Wyoming cattle country in the late nineteenth century, it tells the true story of a long-vanished time-the era of the cowhands and the bloody Johnson County range wars.
Here is a rich and serious novel of the violent West
