TY - BOOK AU - McCoy, Max, TI - American odyssey T2 - A ghost rifle western SN - 9780786046959 AV - PS3563.C3523 A82 2022 U1 - 813.6 23 KW - Frontier and pioneer life KW - Fiction KW - Fur traders KW - Gunsmiths KW - Indians of North America KW - Rifles KW - West (U.S.) KW - Western fiction KW - fast KW - Western stories KW - gsafd N2 - "THE WEAPON AND THE WILDERNESS. Ten years have passed since Jack Picaro lost his Ghost Rifle--the firearm he invented, the one that never missed its target. The loss of the rifle calmed the hellraiser in his soul. Instead of returning to the gambling halls and whiskey bars of St. Louis, Jack has spent the last decade as a fur trapper in Wyoming's Wild River Range, married to Sky, the daughter of an Arikara war chief. Then, after helping rescue U.S. soldiers captured by Crow Indians in the Rocky Mountains, Jack hears the familiar bell-like report of his Ghost Rifle. Determined to retrieve his deadly property, he travels deep into Lakota territory, facing down old enemies--and resuming old sinful habits--unaware of what awaits him when he eventually returns home to his family."--Back cover ER -