The Great Wide Open
Tom Owens
In the continuing saga of the Duncan family introduced in The Chimney, Micah Duncan, now a young
. . . attorney, becomes frustrated by the politics of reconstruction in Missouri and heads out West to see the continent’s untamed stretches before they vanish. He becomes enamored with the beautiful daughter of a cavalry commander and encounters corruption, greed, and the stunning victory of Native American warriors over Custer’s vaunted 7th Cavalry. Micah’s story carries you through his own moral decline and redemption as he achieves prominence as a leading citizen of a mining boom town in the Colorado Rockies and witnesses first-hand the transformation of the American West. More