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This won the Spur Award for Best Historical Novel, given by the Western Writers of America. Set between 1871 and 1924, it tells the story of the settlement and eventual statehood of Oklahoma, spanning the decades from the buffalo hunters to the oil boomtowns of the 1920s. Three generations of Kincaids live in a turbulent region during an agitated era in American history. The focus is on the rise of piratical tycoon Jake Kincaid. He builds a ranching, transportation, and mining empire only to be rejected by his two sons Owen and Brad. Owen, despising lack of ethics by Jake, becomes a lawman, while Brad, rejected by his father, becomes an outlaw. This being a saga, its length requires a commitment from the reader but the story moves forward at a steady pace. The character of Jake is persuasively fallible and flawed, but nonetheless heroic. Owen too is a well rounded character.