The Final Tally - Softcover

Wheeler, Richard S.

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ISBN 10: 0865345538 ISBN 13: 9780865345539

Publisher: Sunstone Press, 2007

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Santiago Toole is the sheriff at Miles City, in frontier Montana. He is also a doctor but he can't make a living at it. He soon finds that enforcing the law and practicing medicine intertwine in startling ways, and there is as much danger from sick or crazed people as there is from men who heed no law on earth. Toole is summoned out of town to a trail drive camp, to tend to an injured man. But he finds that the man has been shot. And other cowboys have also been shot. And the boss man, Hermes Bragg, is dying of consumption. Toole finds himself dealing with some of the most bull-headed drovers ever to come up the trail from Texas. And the worst of them all is the boss's daughter, Athena Bragg, who is not going to slow down the cattle drive for anything, least of all Sheriff Toole. The Final Tally is one of Richard Wheeler's four celebrated Santiago Toole novels. Others in the Santiago Toole Series are: "Deuces and Ladies Wild," "The Fate" and "Incident at Fort Keogh." Sunstone Press is pleased to republish Richard S. Wheeler's finest novels of the American West, each carefully selected for their enduring value. Richard S. Wheeler has written about sixty novels of the American West for Doubleday, Forge, Fawcett, Ballantine, Bantam, Pinnacle, New American Library, Walker and Company, and M. Evans. He has received five Spur Awards and holds the Owen Wister Award for lifetime achievement in the field of western literature.

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About the Author

Richard S. Wheeler is the author of more than thirty novels, most of them historicals that deal with the American West. He has won two Spur Awards from Western Writers of America. He lives in Livingston, Montana, in the heart of the country he writes about.

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SECRETS LAY COVERED IN BLOOD AND BULLETS?

This was no ordinary cattle drive through Sheriff Santiago Toole's Miles City in the Montana Territory. Three cowboys in the outfit had already stopped bullets, and the boss man Hermes Bragg was dying of consumption. But his two hard-bitten, closemouthed kids would keep pressing on, no matter what.

Since Toole was the doctor, his first responsibility was to the wounded. But he was a lawman too, and the Bragg outfit wasn't lamming out before he had some answers. Trouble was, young Athena Bragg didn't intend to hang around, and she'd kill anyone who tried to persuade her. That's why no one had dared interfere with the Braggs - until now . . .

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