The Hardest Ride

The Hardest Ride

A USA TODAY and Amazon bestseller, this wonderfully crafted tale of 1800s Western life won the Western Fictioneers' Peacemaker Award for Best Western Novel 2014, was a Western Fictioneers Peacemaker Award Finalist for Best First Western Novel 2014, and was a Western Writers of America Spur Award Finalist for Best Traditional Western Novel for 2013.

The Texas-Mexico border, the winter of 1886â€”The Great Die Up. A raw rift separates Mexicans and Anglos. A loner cowpoke and a mute Mexican girl fight man and nature to reunite.

Out of work cowpoke Bud Eugen comes across Marta, a mute sixteen-year old Mexican girl whose family has been killed by Indians. Bud reluctantly takes her along, even though heâ€™s never had to accommodate another person in his simple life. Heâ€™s unable to find anyone willing to take her. In spite of his prejudices, Bud grows to like the spunky girl (and her excellent cooking).

Eventually, they both find work on a border ranch. Here, the relationship between the girl and the young cowboy hesitantly grows. But banditos raid the ranch, kidnapping the rancherâ€™s daughters and Marta. Bud, with twelve other men, pursue the banditos into the most desolate reaches of Mexico. Ambushes and battles with banditos, Rurales, and traitors are constant, and the brutal weather is as much a threat as the man-made perils. Life and death choices are made at every turn as one side gains the advantage, then the other.

The rancherâ€™s daughters are rescued, and the exhausted party turns back. But Bud presses on alone, against insurmountable odds â€“ determined to fulfill an unspoken promise to Marta.

Country	USA
Author	Gordon L. Rottman
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9781629160184
Format	Kindle eBook
IsAdultProduct
Label	Hartwood Publishing
Manufacturer	Hartwood Publishing
NumberOfPages	314
PublicationDate	2013-12-04
Publisher	Hartwood Publishing
ReleaseDate	2013-12-04
Studio	Hartwood Publishing

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