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Whiskey when we're dry / John Larison.

Larison, John, (author.).

Summary:

In the spring of 1885, seventeen-year-old Jessilyn Harney finds herself orphaned and alone on her family's homestead. Desperate to fend off starvation and predatory neighbors, she cuts off her hair, binds her chest, saddles her beloved mare, and sets off across the mountains to find her outlaw brother Noah and bring him home. A talented sharpshooter herself, Jess's quest lands her in the employ of the territory's violent, capricious Governor, whose militia is also hunting Noah--dead or alive. Wrestling with her brother's outlaw identity, and haunted by questions about her own, Jess must outmaneuver those who underestimate her, ultimately rising to become a hero in her own right.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780735220447
  • Physical Description: 387 pages ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: New York : Viking, 2018.
Subject: Women > West (U.S.) > Fiction.
Teenage girls > Fiction.
Orphans > Fiction.
Outlaws > Fiction.
Gunfighters > Fiction.
Brothers and sisters > Fiction.
Sex role > Fiction.
Survival > Fiction.
Governors > Fiction.
Impersonation > Fiction.
Identity (Psychology) > Fiction.
Eighteen eighties > Fiction.
Genre: Historical fiction.
Western fiction.
Bildungsromans.

Available copies

  • 7 of 7 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Castlegar Public Library.

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Summary: In the spring of 1885, seventeen-year-old Jessilyn Harney finds herself orphaned and alone on her family's homestead. Desperate to fend off starvation and predatory neighbors, she cuts off her hair, binds her chest, saddles her beloved mare, and sets off across the mountains to find her outlaw brother Noah and bring him home. A talented sharpshooter herself, Jess's quest lands her in the employ of the territory's violent, capricious Governor, whose militia is also hunting Noah--dead or alive. Wrestling with her brother's outlaw identity, and haunted by questions about her own, Jess must outmaneuver those who underestimate her, ultimately rising to become a hero in her own right.

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