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Bendigo Shafter
First published 1979
Bendigo Shafter is part of a small group building a settlement in the Wyoming country, where survival depends on cooperation long before law, markets or established institutions can be taken for granted. A gifted hunter and worker, Bendigo grows into one of the community’s natural leaders as the settlement faces weather, isolation and the threat of violence.
His responsibilities increase as new arrivals and competing ambitions change the place the settlers have made. Love, land and leadership all force Bendigo to decide what kind of future he wants and how much he owes to the people who helped build it with him. The novel treats town-building and community formation as central parts of frontier life rather than merely a backdrop for gunfights.
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