Name: The Orchardist's Secret
Author: Ray Mathews
ISBN: 9781612964751

Published:

Feb-2015
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Print / eBook
Main Genre:

Historical
Time Period:

19th Century American West
Pages:

204
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Orchardist, Sean Kerry, believes his fruits are 'gold' - until the Maidu Indian boys who help him with his harvests, promise him gold nuggets. Afraid he will start a gold rush if he displays the gold; Sean hides it. Before he can tell his family where the gold is hidden, he is killed by two white men bent on the rape of a Maidu Indian girl when he intervenes.

Intent on avenging his father's killing, Sean's son, Finn must learn to shoot a gun before he can hunt down the killer. To learn about gun-handling, old Indian fighter, Wild Bill Mackey, turns Finn into an adept shootist.

During the California Gold Rush, the Kerry Orchards become lucrative and then decline along with the Gold Rush, and eventually the orchards are going broke. Can Finn survive a duel with a killer and find his father's gold in time to save the orchards?