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Skyrider

Skyrider

M. Bower, B.

Paperback

Westerns

ISBN10: 9354020356
ISBN13: 9789354020353
Publisher: Alpha Ed
Published: Jun 25 2020
Pages: 210
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.48 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Where the range meets the runway, the West changes. Then the wide sky opens. In Skyrider, B. M. Bower fuses an American West setting with the new daring of flight, creating a classic western novel that rides the boundary between saddle leather and propeller wind. Written in the early 20th century West, this is aviation adventure fiction with dust under its wings: ranch work, small town loyalties, and the hard choices of aviation and frontier life. Her prose is lean and bright, attentive to weather, work, and the social rules that hold a ranching district together, on the ground and aloft. Bower, a major voice of romantic western fiction, brings a keen eye for community pressures and private longing, making the story as much ranch community romance as cowboy pilot adventure. For readers who savour a Zane Grey western adventure or an Owen Wister western classic, Skyrider offers a fresh angle on the frontier myth: modern technology testing old codes, and love and belonging negotiated in open country. As a landmark of western popular writing, it also captures a moment when the sky first became part of the range. Republished by Alpha Editions in a careful modern edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today - a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike. A public domain western ebook favourite, it is presented as an unabridged public domain edition for both casual reading and classic literature shelves. For the long shelf.

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