I received "Justice Beyond the Trail's End" by Alfred Patrick for free from http://www.librarything.com/. This novel stars Joshua Parker, an adventure seeker who leaves home for the Civil War and winds up in the Wild West. To start with Parker leaves his family against their wishes at the age of 17 to join the war and fight as a sharpshooter (sniper). Upon coming home he discovers that one really can't go home again. So then he takes off for the West. He tours around as a lawman, but as age would have it, falls in love and desires to settle down.
This is a pretty good book. I like Wild West stuff and this time period. Alfred Patrick has a way with characters. He is really good at inventing people and making them seem real. They seem to matter to the reader. You are gonna love Helen. However, the book really would work better as two books, maybe a series. It seems to want to end in the middle and then take off in another direction. Still it's a good one.
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