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The Sunset Trail : a Western story [text (large print)] / L.P. Holmes.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Thorndike, Maine Center Point Large Print, 2017Copyright date: ©2014Edition: Large print editionDescription: 238 pages (large print) ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781683244219 (hardcover)
  • 1683244214 (hardcover)
  • 9781683244257 (paperback)
  • 1683244257 (paperback)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PS3515.O4448 S88 2017
Other classification:
  • FIC033000
Summary: It was a long journey that no one had tried before. Jeff Kennett and his drovers have brought a herd of 2,000 longhorns from Texas to California through a northern route that has taken them two years to complete. The Gold Rush is on and there is a tremendous demand for beef and no way to get it. Kennett believes he can make a fortune by transporting the cattle by riverboat from Lassen Meadows down the Sacramento River for sale in San Francisco. He has been referred to Captain Bill Ballinger, headquartered in Sacramento, as the man who can best pilot the cattle downriver, transporting the herd in increments aboard The Sunset Trail. At a U.S. Army camp on the Truckee River, Kennett first met Deborah Sharpe, who was traveling from Boston to join her father in Sacramento. Kennett renews their acquaintance when he is invited to the home of her father, Colonel Nathaniel Sharpe. The colonel, with his partner, Noah Carlin, is in the shipping business with a fleet of riverboats and assures Kennett that they can transport the cattle faster and at less expense than Ballinger. When Kennett turns them down, Noah Carlin threatens that Kennett will never get his cattle to San Francisco. It is soon clear that Sharpe and Carlin will do everything they can not only to stop The Sunset Trail from transporting Kennett's cattle, but to seize the herd for themselves.
Holdings
Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Large Print Davis (Central) Library Non-Fiction Non-Fiction HOLM Available T00619753
Large Print Hakeke Street Library Large Print Large Print HOLM Available T00619754
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

It was a long journey that no one had tried before. Jeff Kennett and his drovers have brought a herd of 2,000 longhorns from Texas to California through a northern route that has taken them two years to complete. The Gold Rush is on and there is a tremendous demand for beef and no way to get it. Kennett believes he can make a fortune by transporting the cattle by riverboat from Lassen Meadows down the Sacramento River for sale in San Francisco. He has been referred to Captain Bill Ballinger, headquartered in Sacramento, as the man who can best pilot the cattle downriver, transporting the herd in increments aboard The Sunset Trail. At a U.S. Army camp on the Truckee River, Kennett first met Deborah Sharpe, who was traveling from Boston to join her father in Sacramento. Kennett renews their acquaintance when he is invited to the home of her father, Colonel Nathaniel Sharpe. The colonel, with his partner, Noah Carlin, is in the shipping business with a fleet of riverboats and assures Kennett that they can transport the cattle faster and at less expense than Ballinger. When Kennett turns them down, Noah Carlin threatens that Kennett will never get his cattle to San Francisco. It is soon clear that Sharpe and Carlin will do everything they can not only to stop The Sunset Trail from transporting Kennett's cattle, but to seize the herd for themselves.

Originally published in 2014.

It was a long journey that no one had tried before. Jeff Kennett and his drovers have brought a herd of 2,000 longhorns from Texas to California through a northern route that has taken them two years to complete. The Gold Rush is on and there is a tremendous demand for beef and no way to get it. Kennett believes he can make a fortune by transporting the cattle by riverboat from Lassen Meadows down the Sacramento River for sale in San Francisco. He has been referred to Captain Bill Ballinger, headquartered in Sacramento, as the man who can best pilot the cattle downriver, transporting the herd in increments aboard The Sunset Trail. At a U.S. Army camp on the Truckee River, Kennett first met Deborah Sharpe, who was traveling from Boston to join her father in Sacramento. Kennett renews their acquaintance when he is invited to the home of her father, Colonel Nathaniel Sharpe. The colonel, with his partner, Noah Carlin, is in the shipping business with a fleet of riverboats and assures Kennett that they can transport the cattle faster and at less expense than Ballinger. When Kennett turns them down, Noah Carlin threatens that Kennett will never get his cattle to San Francisco. It is soon clear that Sharpe and Carlin will do everything they can not only to stop The Sunset Trail from transporting Kennett's cattle, but to seize the herd for themselves.

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