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Ralph has written some "Westerns" with a little "Mystery" in them and he has written some "Westerns" with a little "Romance" in them. This book is his first attempt at writing a "Western Mystery" that has a little romance in it.
Ralph had completed the first eleven chapters of this book when something happened to influence the rest of the book. A young lady who sits in the pew behind him at church won a blue ribbon at the State Fair for her cookies. He asked her to make him some of those cookies. She did, but refused to take any money for the cookies. Ralph wanted to repay her generosity so he created the character Zoe Karpas in this book to honor that young lady.
Jacob Matthews is a quiet man who does not like all of the attention he earned in the Civil War by winning the Congressional Medal of Honor.When he goes home to Indiana after the war, he finds that all of his family has died. He has only one living relative, an uncle in Wyoming. He receives a letter from that uncle saying that his uncle will leave his 6,000 acre ranch to Jacob if he will come and "bring his guns".
When he gets to Wyoming, he finds that his uncle has been killed and someone, posing as Jacob Matthews, is now running his uncle's ranch.
Jacob needs to find out who murdered his uncle and why before he can rightfully claim his ranch.
Total words = 38,351
Subplots and storylines:
Chap 1 - Background
Chap 2-3 - Going home
Chap 4-13 - Going to Wyoming
Chap 14 - Mystery begins
Chap 15-22 - Solving the mystery
Chap 23-24 - Starting a new life
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