Revenge Requires Two Graves
The Cooper Series
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3.8 • 17 Ratings
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Publisher Description
In Revenge Requires Two Graves young Ray Cooper is forced to escape his youth and prematurely embrace adulthood after a series of misfortunate events that happen in rapid succession to the Cooper family. This historically driven fiction is set in the 1860's, United States. This western adventure for teens and adults includes romance, rejection, murder, and revenge.
As a teenager in Wisconsin, Ray Cooper is a confident young man who knows how to survive. He can handle himself with his fists and naturally quick with a gun, but he hasn't got a clue as to the workings of a woman's mind. He was raised by a strong, caring father who had spent the necessary time to mold his character and a mother that showed him both love and compassion.
When the owner of the mill is killed, Ray and his two friends are forced to escape to avoid being arrested for murder. Ray's mother has already been told that Ray and Ray's Pa were killed. Having no other family in the area, she sells the family cabin and heads west to live with her sister. When the three boys hear that the only mother they all really knew is on her way to California, they decide to follow, where along the way they face many adventures and hardships. Unbeknownst to the trio, the daughter of the mill owner has declared vengeance on the three, sending hired guns after them and even heading west herself in order to arrange an ambush for the Cooper gang. Can Ray overcome the trials of the open road, find his mother, defeat his enemies, and lay his father's soul to rest?
Customer Reviews
What an amazing adventure!!!
This is a little known western book, by this author called George Emery Townsend. On this platform, and on Goodreads, there are no reviews for this epic masterpiece of a book. This book is an epic masterpiece, for its plot lines, it's scenes on the trail, the forrests, saloons and towns. Every element of this book will keep you in suspense to the end. There are several gritty scenes in this book, that is why I say it's not intended for younger audiences. If this book were a movie, I'd rate it M for mature audiences. There is a historical inaccuracy in this book, and it relates to the story of the Marshall of Los Angeles. This book says Winchester's, but there were no Winchesters in 1846, unless the book takes place in 1886 which I don't think so, because there were no railways during this time. It was the year 1869 that the railway became widely available To folks in the west. Instead they took waggon trains, this is the way people travelled back in those days after the Civil War. There were loads of people back in that time travelling to the west, the American frontier at the end of the Civil War. This book is about Ray Cooper, and his adventure from becoming just Amir teenager, to being a young, married man, living on a ranch outside Pueblo de Los Angeles. The adventure truly starts, with his father's land dispute with the logging company, which ran the town that he and his wife, and son Ray lived in. This resulted in Emory's death, and Mildred, the mother of Ray heading to California, to live with the only sister she knew. This adventure begins in Wisconsin, moves to Missouri, where they caught the waggon train going west to California, Oregon, and so on. I have never seen a better western book than this one.