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Tough Luck

Tough Luck

Dallas, Sandra

Hardcover

WesternsGeneral FictionHistorical Fiction

Publisher Price: $29.00

ISBN10: 1250352304
ISBN13: 9781250352309
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: Apr 29 2025
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.80
Height: 1.20 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.30
Language: English

WWA Spur Awards Finalist in the Historical Novel category

In this homage to True Grit, a young woman makes a perilous journey west in 1863 in search of her gold-mining father.

After their mother dies, Haidie Richards and her younger brother, Boots, are put to work in an orphanage. Their father left four years earlier to find a gold mine in Colorado Territory, and since then he's sent only three letters. Still, Haidie is certain that he is alive, has struck gold, and will soon send for them.

But patience is not one of Haidie's virtues, and soon she and her brother make a break for it. Boots and Haidie, disguised as a boy, embark on a dangerous journey deep into Western territory. Along the way, Haidie learns fast not only how to handle mules, oxen, and greedy men, but also that you are better off in a community. Hers includes a card shark, independent spinster sisters, and a very fierce dog. Once she arrives in Colorado and finds out the truth about her father, Haidie will need all her new friends for a get-even plot worthy of The Sting.

Filled with vivid period detail, colorful characters, and the irreverent voice of our scrappy heroine, Tough Luck celebrates both the tenacity of youth and the persistence of the heart in the great American West.

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