TY - BOOK AU - Cheshire, Giff AU - Pronzini, Bill TI - Renegade River: : western stories SN - 9780786210312 U1 - 813.54 PY - 1998/// CY - Thornidike, Maine PB - Thorndike Press KW - Frontier and Pioneer Life - West (US) - Fiction KW - Western Stories KW - Large Type Books N1 - The bad year; A Mug at Charley's; Strangers in the Evening; Man Breaker; Whistle on the River; Stagecoach Passs; Renegade River; East Ain't West; The Road to Jericho; Know your headings; A Bridge to the future; Miracle of Starvation Flat N2 - This collection contains many of Giff Cheshire's best stories, all bearing the distinctive stamp of authentic and colourfully portrayed background, vivid characters, and gripping drama. The Bad Year and Man Breaker are moving tales of the hardships faced by small back-country ranchers. The Road to Jericho is a variation on the theme of a wagon train plagued by Indians, and Stagecoach Pass is an elemental account of a driver's struggles to save his passengers when his coach is caught in a blizzard. In A Mug at Charley's, a retired steamboat fireman and engineer makes the most of his last chance to fulfil a lifelong dream. And Whistle on the River, one of Cheshire's best, tells of steamboat builders on the Columbia. Many more stories round out this rich, diverse cross-section of frontier life. ER -