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By Robert J. Conley

When fresh Harvard graduate George Tanner returns domestic to Tahlequah within the Cherokee state, he unearths town bustling and lodgings scarce. The council is in consultation and everybody is in town.

Captain Go-Ahead Rider, the district sheriff, deals Tanner quick employment as a deputy. Rider senses difficulty as a few key matters arise for vote sooner than the Council. the large issue—and the main debatable one—is even if the railroad could be allowed to return into town.

Mix Hail, the swing vote at the factor, all of sudden disappears, and Tanner reveals himself smack in the midst of big-money politics and his personal nation’s matters. because the lawmen type via a pile of blackmail, revenge, and bootlegging, they discover a foul plot through a number of the town’s top electorate. Tanner learns how you can be a lawman, whereas even as experiencing the enjoyment of being domestic, in his personal land, along with his personal humans, conversing his personal language.

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