Phillips Scott - Cottonwood - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: In 1872, Cottonwood Kansas is a one - horse speck on the map; a community of run - down farms dusty roads and two - bit crooks. Self - educated saloon owner and photographer Bill Ogden looks on his adopted town with an eye to making a profit or getting out. His brains and ambition bring him to the attention of one Marc Leval a wealthy Chicago developer with big plans for the small town. The advent of the railroad and rumors of a cattle trail turn Cottonwood into a wild and wooly boomtown - and with Leval as a partner Ogden dreams of bringing civilization to the prairie. But civilizing the Great Plains was never that simple. While many in Cottonwood distrust Leval's motives and mob violence threatens to derail the town's dreams of greatness Ogden finds himself dangerously obsessed with Leval's stunningly beautiful wife. Meanwhile plying its sinister trade unnoticed an apparently ordinary local farm family quietly butchers traveling salesmen weary travelers and other unsuspecting wanderers. In his own inimitable brand of narrative wizardry Scott Phillips traces the metamorphosis of a frontier town that becomes a lightning rod for sin corruption and murder. He also brings to life actual crimes that befell Kansas in the 1870s and 1880s carried out by a strange clan who popularly became known as the Bloody Benders. Brilliantly written maliciously fun and full of many surprises Cottonwood is historical fiction at its finest.
Title: Cottonwood
Author(s): Phillips Scott
Publisher: Soho Press
Barcode: 9781641291415
Pages: 1 Pages
Publication Date: 6/4/2024
Category: Historical Fiction