Trail to Vicksburg

TWO BY A MASTER

Lewis B. Patten is truly a master of Western fiction. He received three Spur Awards from the Western Writers of America and was awarded the Golden Saddleman Award for lifetime achievement. Here are two of his finest short novels, restored to their original glory. “The Golden Magnet,” a tale of murder and sabotage set in the boomtown of Denver City during the Gold Rush, presents Norah Forrest, a young woman who becomes the owner of a stagecoach line when her father is killed. In “Trail to Vicksburg,” Jeff Hueston yearns to join his brothers in the Confederate Army, but instead must drive his family’s cattle to New Orleans, a city recently occupied—by Union troops!