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Gerald began cultivating friends in high places & accumulating gold while he still served in the Union Army. he wanted land, Western land, enough for all his family. The he left Ohio & trekked West to claim it.
With him went his brood: his lusty sons & the extraordinary women they loved, a mulatto beauty, an Irish hired girl & a wealthy widow almost as old as their mother--the passionate Evely. Daughter Ruth would find her man along the way.
They were the Shepherds, ready to use any law on the books, connive, buy friendships, fight the Indians & even Nature itself to fence in the Haunted Range, the Indians' sacred land, the Shepherds' dream...
Gerald began cultivating friends in high places & accumulating gold while he still served in the Union Army. he wanted land, Western land, enough for all his family. The he left Ohio & trekked West to claim it.
With him went his brood: his lusty sons & the extraordinary women they loved, a mulatto beauty, an Irish hired girl & a wealthy widow almost as old as their mother--the passionate Evely. Daughter Ruth would find her man along the way.
They were the Shepherds, ready to use any law on the books, connive, buy friendships, fight the Indians & even Nature itself to fence in the Haunted Range, the Indians' sacred land, the Shepherds' dream...
