Will Picket by Doug Smith

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Will Picket by Doug Smith

Will is taken captive by a big rancher Major McKinney that wants his land in Colorado. He escapes with the help of the Major's daughter Elizabeth. They are pursued by Major McKinney and his hands to Arizona through Colorado. Liz and Will are married in Meeker, Colorado but later Elizabeth is captured by the Ute Indians while Will is away from camp. Still being chased by McKinney. He has many encounters with the Major and his hands, captured again but escapes and returns to Steamboat, Colorado where he has friends. He searches for Elizabeth but hears she's dead so he returns to Steamboat and goes to California with Bess, a rival of Elizabeth. McKinney hands follow him and catch up with him where there is a gunfight. He returns to Colorado with Bess. Elizabeth is rescued by the US Cavalry after being captive for a year and returned to her father who also thought she was dead. She has a confrontation with Will and Bess. Liz has been gone a year and returns with Will's son and is pregnant with an Indian baby.
DOUG SMITH is a sports reporter for the Toronto Star and has covered the Raptors since their inception in 1995. He is recognized throughout the NBA as the expert on all things Raptors, and spent five years serving as the first and only non-American president of the Professional Basketball Writers Association, a group of more than 200 men and women who regularly cover the league and its teams. His international basketball experience includes major assignments at the 1992 FIBA Tournament Of The Americas (which was the debut of the United States Dream Team), the 1992 Barcelona, 1996 Atlanta, 2000 Sydney, 2004 Athens, 2008 Beijing, 2012 London and 2016 Rio Olympics, as well as men's world championships in Toronto, Indianapolis, Athens, and Izmir and Istanbul, Turkey.
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ISBN 13 9781452028286
ISBN 10 1452028281
Title Will Picket
Author Doug Smith
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher AuthorHouse
Year published 2010-06-16
Number of pages 312
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.