TY  - BOOK
AU  - Boggs, Johnny D.,
TI  - Bloody Newton
SN  - 9781496738318
AV  - PS3552.O4375 B56 2024
U1  - 813/.54 23/eng/20240618
PY  - 2024///
CY  - New York, NY : 
PB  - Kensington Publishing Corp.
KW  - Women journalists
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Cattle drives
KW  - Gunfights
KW  - Kansas
KW  - Western fiction
KW  - lcgft
N2  - "A decade before the legendary Gunfight at OK Corral, there was a much bloodier showdown with a much bigger body count-and Wichita Herald reporter Cindy Bagwell was there to see it all. At first, the fledgling journalist had no idea why her boss would send her to what hardly even passes for a town. But Texans, including trail boss Gary Hardee and his sons, are bringing longhorns to Kansas. And Newton aims to take over the cattle market. Hardee has his hands full-and that's before he reaches Newton, where Texans and Kansans don't get along. Tensions escalate from fisticuffs to brawling to fatal shootings in short order. But that's just a warm-up. On August 19, 1871, in a gambling room at Tuttle's dance hall in Hide Park, this powder keg of bad blood and bitterness between two rival groups explodes-with one young reporter, a restaurant owner, and Hardee's sons caught in the middle . . ."--
ER  -