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The Legend of Jack Donovan

by Terence Newnes Book 1 in the Bailey Clan Westerns series.

First published 2024

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After Jack Donovan's parents are killed in a raid on the Oregon Trail, he's brought up by the wagon train scout: half white, half Sioux. At the age of thirteen, Jack is a drifter, until he rides into the Double M ranch in Cedar Creek. The legend of Jack Donovan begins here, when he takes down rustlers and a glory-hunting gunslinger.

Now, returning from the civil war, Jack finds that a carpetbagger is trying to take over the Double M. Faced with Jack and the Bailey brothers, the carpetbagger has hired some of the fastest guns in the West to win the Cedar Creek war. But what he doesn't know is that Jack is the fastest gun of them all.

Historical Periods

Emancipation and Reconstruction1863–1877 CE Oregon Trail Migration1840–1869 CE

Genres

Coming-of-Age Fiction Historical Sagas Western & Frontier Fiction

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