Laura Hamilton who never once appears the slightest bit frail or fragile in the story, is constantly referred to like she should be due to a childhood illness that took years to recover from. Her overprotective father hires a companion and two bodyguards to follow her at all times because of this past illness and also because she’s an heiress.
It took much wheedling on Laura’s part to get permission to go on this cross country train trip to document the towns as they expanded along the railway. Laura is a panoramic artist who paints extremely large canvases of urban and rural landscapes. She can’t do portraiture (but somehow manages to do just that at a prime time in the novel.)
Her end destination is Haw Crocker’s Silver Spur Ranch (a silver mining ranch) as he and her daddy are business partners. This makes her extremely valuable to Sam Duncan who is looking to find out what happened to longtime his friend. He attaches himself to the group by claiming to be another hired bodyguard and follows them as they make their way slowly to the ranch.
Sam is an interesting hero. He’s got the mad skills of a superhero or famous cowboy sheriff and puts these skills to use for the highest bidder. His very reputation gets grown men to give up once they learn he’s not on their side. On the other hand, Sam suffers acutely from claustrophobia. He has a fear of indoors, barely tolerates walls at all no matter how large the enclosed space, and especially hates tight spaces. This is because of his stint inside a Confederate prison before the end of the war.
I got tired of Mrs. Bossidy almost immediately. I wasn’t a big fan of her side romance with one of the bodyguards. I skipped a lot of those sections because they didn’t hold my interest.
Crocker’s a real villain. He helped Chinese men to get over to America by telling them they’d get schooling and go to universities. In reality they became his slaves, forced to work in the mines and live in shanty camps under constant guard. Nobody was allowed to escape and those who developed a conscious were forced into working the mines as well.
Rating: 3 Stars
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