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      Cloudy in the West

      by Elmer Kelton
      Published
      Apr 1997
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      Historical Historical
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      244
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      In the Texas backlands in 1885, twelve-year-old Joey Shipman's father dies under mysterious circumstances, and the boy is forced to live with his stepmother and Blair Meacham, a hanger-on at the farm. After the death of a black farmhand and friend, and another "accident" that almost takes Joey's life, the boy runs away and joins forces with his only kin—Beau Shipman, a drunk and a jailbird. Beau, along with an outlaw, a San Antonio prostitute, and a sheepman, become Joey's unlikely partners as he is trailed by the murderous Meacham, in league with Joey's stepmother in their scheme to inherit the Shipman farm.

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      Western

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      Historical

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