{"product_id":"9781250830470","title":"Buffalo Wagons and Cloudy in the West","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTwo complete novels from the legendary Western author Elmer Kelton in one low-priced edition: \u003ci\u003eBuffalo Wagons \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eCloudy in the West\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBuffalo Wagons\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e For Gage Jameson, the summer of 1873 has been a poor hunt. A year ago he felled sixty-two buffalo in one stand, but now the great Arkansas River herd is gone, like the Republican herd before it.\u003cbr\u003e In Dodge City, old hide hunters speak in awe of a last great heard to the south—but no hunter who values his scalp dares ride south of the Cimarron and into Comanche territory. None but Gage Jameson....\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCloudy in the West\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the Texas backlands in 1885, twelve-year-old Joey Shipman's father dies under mysterious circumstances, and the boy is forced to live with his stepmother and Blair Meacham, a hanger-on at the farm. After the death of a black farmhand and friend, and another \"accident\" that almost takes Joey's life, the boy runs away and joins forces with his only kin—Beau Shipman, a drunk and a jailbird.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Beau, along with an outlaw, a San Antonio prostitute, and a sheepman become Joey's unlikely partners as he is trailed by their murderous Meacham, in league with Joey's stepmother in their scheme to inherit the Shipman farm.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Elmer Kelton","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Mass market (rack) paperback","offer_id":56782894661792,"sku":"9781250830470","price":6.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8637\/5072\/files\/BNCImageAPI_675ff8f3-451f-4a42-bec6-2a0ec8fdfd6e.jpg?v=1772235030","url":"https:\/\/rivendell-books.com\/products\/9781250830470","provider":"Rivendell Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}