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As roughrider Toby Holt struggles to build a new life in nineteenth-century Chicago, an old enemy and a former love bring upheavel, tragedy, and death in a tale set against the 1871 fire that devasted Chicago.Tags
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One of a batch of this series which I recently bought cheap but have not yet read
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220+ Works 8,874 Members
American author James Reasoner specializes in historical military novels, westerns, and mysteries. He also writes under the pseudonyms "Mike Jameson", "Hank Mitchum" and "Dana Fuller Ross." He has written more than 40 novels. His spouse, Livia Washburn Reasoner, is also a prolific writer of westerns, mysteries, and romances. Perhaps Reasoner's show more best known work is the ten-volume James Reasoner Civil War Series, which features the fictional Brannon family. The series is set in the town and county of Culpeper, Virginia, a major Confederate supply depot in central northern Virginia north of the Rapidan River. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical title
- Illinois!
- People/Characters
- Toby Holt; Mary White Owl; Cindy Holt; Tim Holt; Leland Blake; Henry Blake (show all 17); Dr. Robert Martin; Tonie Martin; Andrew Brentwood; Gisela von Kirchberg; Robert Martin; Kale Martin; Marjorie White; Frank Woods; Edward Blackstone; Tommie Blackstone; Stalking Horse
- Important places
- Illinois, USA; Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Original language
- English
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- Members
- 150
- Popularity
- 219,253
- Reviews
- 1
- Rating
- (3.89)
- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Audiobook
- ISBNs
- 7
