Michael Lackey
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Mormon elders in the town of Cottonwoods pressure the widow Jane Withersteen to remarry so that her lands and herds will remain in their control. Gradually they frighten away most of her cowboys, and rustlers steal away her cattle, but the gunfighter Lassiter stands by her as the inevitable confrontation draws near.
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"Driscoll made a mistake and he paid for it. They caught him rustling and stuck him in a cell - with a man condemned to hand the next morning. Driscoll learned a lot about his cellnate, about how he robbed a bank and killed a man...and about how the money was never recovered. But he never learned where the money was."--Provided by publisher.
4) The jungle
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A documentary novel portraying industry's conditions at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century. Sinclair's novel prompted public outrage which led President Theodore Roosevelt to demand an official investigation. This eventually led to the passage of the Pure Food and Drug laws.
