Publisher's Synopsis
El Reno was a 2017 Finalist for the Western Fictioneers Best First Western Novel Award. El Reno is a stirring saga of America's western migration told in the voices of those who lived those exciting times. The West's great creation story is peopled with brave men and women, Civil War veterans, freed slaves, cowboys, Indians, outlaws, the Klu Klux Klan, beautiful women, and exotic and wise visitors. All of the characters in El Reno have precedent in myth and literature and the careful reader will delight in discovering the bond between El Reno's inhabitants and those of past heroes' journeys: the Odyssey, the search for the Grail, and the return to the Garden. The Great Run of 1889, the settling of Oklahoma, the Dust Bowl, and the Depression are given new voice in El Reno, where history and myth are alive.
