Rogers Writersβ Trust Fiction Prize 2015 - Short-listed _ _Growing up on the Caribbean island of St. Chris, Grace Carpenter never feels like she really belongs. Although her large, extended family is black, she is a redibo. Her skin is copper-coloured, her hair is red, and her eyes are grey. A nei
Red Jacket
β Scribed by Heywood, Joseph
- Book ID
- 108464462
- Publisher
- Lyons Press
- Year
- 2012
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 660 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780762782536
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β¦ Synopsis
From the author of the Woods Cop mysteries comes a new historical mystery set in 1913, featuring Rough Rider turned game warden Lute Bapcat, orphan, loner, former cowboy, Rough Rider, beaver trapper, a man who in 1913, with the enthusiastic recommendation by the Theodore Roosevelt, himself, becomes one of the Michigan's first civil service game wardens. In Red Jacket, he confronts an explosive, bloody labor strike; a siege-like sabotage, including a sudden rash of decapitated, spoiled deer; poisoned trout streams and well water; and unusual deforestationβall apparently designed by mine owners to deny nature's bounty to the strikers, and thereby to break the union.
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