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The Fall of Abilene
Contributor(s): Boggs, Johnny D. (Author), Sullivan, Nick (Read by)
ISBN: 198259389X     ISBN-13: 9781982593896
Publisher: Blackstone Western
OUR PRICE:   $26.96  
Product Type: Compact Disc - Other Formats
Published: June 2019
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Temporarily out of stock - Will ship within 2 to 5 weeks
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Westerns - General
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.8" W x 5.6" (0.25 lbs)
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Western U.S.
- Topical - Country/Cowboy
 
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Publisher Description:

Noah Benton, a teenager with a great memory, a head for arithmetic, and dreams of excitement, is hired along with his older brother to help drive a herd of Texas longhorns to Abilene, Kansas. But Noah's trail boss happens to be John Wesley Hardin, a notorious killer who thinks Texas lawmen won't look for a fugitive in a crew of hardworking cowboys. After Hardin sees a profit in Noah's ability to count and memorize cards in gambling dens, Noah's dreams of excitement quickly turn into nightmares--for Hardin will kill with little provocation.

Earning the nicknames "Counting Boy," "The Abilene Kid," and "Abilene," Noah survives the bloody journey to Kansas, only to learn that Abilene rightfully deserves its nickname as a Sodom or Gomorrah. In a town where anything goes, the marshal, legendary gunfighter Wild Bill Hickok, reluctantly forms a truce with Hardin--leaving Noah caught in the middle. As summer stretches into fall, Noah finds another friend, a special deputy named Mike Williams, who tries to keep Noah from stumbling on his way to manhood.

In this well-researched historical novel, eight-time Spur Award-winning author Johnny D. Boggs chronicles Abilene's last year as a cattle town, 1871, while humanizing Hardin and Hickok and painting sobering portraits of a city undergoing rapid change, and the never-changing challenges teenagers face on their path to adulthood.


Contributor Bio(s): Boggs, Johnny D.: -

Johnny D. Boggs, who Booklist magazine said was "among the best Western writers at work today," has won his eighth Spur Award, becoming the all-time leader in Western Writers of America's sixty-six-year history.

Sullivan, Nick: -

Nick Sullivan has narrated audiobooks for over twenty years and has recorded over four hundred titles. An Audie Award winner, he is also the recipient of numerous AudioFile Earphones Awards. His TV and film credits include The Good Wife, The Affair, Bull, Boardwalk Empire, 30 Rock, Our Idiot Brother, and Private Life.