02153cam a2200325 i 4500 1226175948 TxAuBib 20240408120000.0 181004s2018||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2018044738 9781250197092 hardcover 1250197090 hardcover TxAuBib rda Estleman, Loren D, author. Wild justice [HC] / Loren D. Estleman. First edition. New York : Forge, A Tom Doherty Associates Book, 2018. 224 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Page Murdock novel, A ; 10 "A Forge Book.". "A Tom Doherty Associates book.". "Spur Award-Wining author"--Dust jacket. "In the spring of 1896, after thirty years spent dispensing justice in Montana, Judge Harlan Blackthorne expires, leaving Deputy U.S. Marshal Page Murdock, his most steadfast officer, to escort his remains across the continent by rail. The long journey is interrupted from time to time by station stops for the public to pay its respects, and for various marching bands to serenade the departed with his favorite ballad, "After the Ball." This gives Murdock plenty of opportunity to reflect upon the years of triumphs and tragedies he's seen firsthand, always in the interest of bringing justice to a wilderness that he, his fellow deputies, and the judge played so important a role in its settlement. As the funeral train chugs through prairie, over mountains, and across rivers once ruled by buffalo herds, Indian nations, trappers, cowboys, U.S. Cavalry, entrepreneurs, and outlaws representing every level of heroism, sacrifice, ambition, and vice, Wild Justice provides a capsule history of the American frontier from its untamed beginnings to a civilization balanced on the edge of a new and unpredictable century" -- Provided by publisher. 20240408. Western stories. A Page Murdock novel ; 10.