The Bounty Trail

By Richard S. Wheeler

Book Overview

Some know him as the Colonel. But from California to Colorado, everyone who meets C.P. Raines thinks he's the most charming, daring, and greedy swindler ever to ply the frontier. Now, this handsome devil has found a little piece of heaven - in a desolate corner of Nevada.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786015950
• ISBN13: 9780786015955
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Pinnacle Books
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.0" x 0.8" x 4.5"

Customer Reviews

Flawed heroes, whose struggles build character

The cover and title suggest this novel is a formula western action saga (and there's nothing wrong with those). But, while there is action, The Bounty Trail--as we've come to expect from Richard S. Wheeler--hinges more on characterization than violence. Two men and a woman--all with less than perfect pasts, and all down on their luck--strive to resurrect their lives in a played-out (or is it?) mining town. Flawed they are, but each has a basic dignity that makes the reader care about them; and as they struggle, they grow, often in spite of themselves. This is a delightfully entertaining read, filled with the kind of characters only Wheeler can create, and grounded in the lure and lore of frontier mining that he knows so well.