" Winding Stair is True Grit for grown-ups... A significant and highly entertaining contribution to the popular literature of the American West."- The New York Times Fort Smith, Arkansas, in 1890, is... This description may be from another edition of this product.
This is a story of the pursuit of a murderer in what is now eastern Oklahome just before it became a state. The pursuit is carried out jointly by a U.S. Marshall and the law officers of the Indian nation involved, probably the Cherokee.In addition to a good story by an excellent writer of historical fiction, Douglas C. Jones, ("The Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer"; "Elkhorn Tavern"), it describes the relatively unfamiliar operation of an Indian nation in the "Indian Territory" a few years before Oklahama statehood in 1907.
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