Moving across the country like two great claws, rails of shining steel carved their way into the heart of Oregon's vast frontier. The seemingly unstoppable rail lines could go no further when they reached the land of Hanna Racine. She was a beautiful woman, easy to love, but impossible to buy. She controls an empire of brutish men who fight for her love and land, but Hanna chooses to be with a man who belongs to another woman. Soon Hanna finds herself in a land filled with terror and hate, and it seems that independence is the root of the problem.
One of America's greatest Western storytellers, Wayne D. Overholser was born September 4, 1906 in Pomeroy, Washington and died August 27, 1996 in Boulder, Colorado. Overholser won the 1953 First Spur Award for best novel for Lawman using the pseudonym Lee Leighton. In 1955 he won the 1954 (second) Spur Award for The Violent Land. He also used the pseudonyms John S. Daniels, Dan J. Stevens and Joseph Wayne.
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