Bibliograph

Dusk along the Niobrara, John D. Nesbitt

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Dusk along the Niobrara, John D. Nesbitt

Language

eng

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no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Dusk along the Niobrara

Oclc number

1054267983

Responsibility statement

John D. Nesbitt

Summary

Dunbar, working on a ranch in the Niobrara country in Wyoming, connects the death of a hardscrabble homesteader with the death of an old horse trader some fifteen years earlier. As Dunbar goes to work on a corral project in town and then on fall roundup, more murders take place--a wandering drunk who has picked up gossip in an alehouse, and then the proprietor of the alehouse. People who know too much are being silenced. An old woman named Verona tells of an ancient crime on Old Woman Creek, where a sheepherder was killed and his partner escaped. In a final scene at the new shipping pens, Dunbar brings forth the witnesses, and a showdown erupts, with Dunbar bringing justice to the Niobrara country

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