Track’s End

Jud Pitcher’s first night in Track’s End is punctuated by gunshots—and then a stranger hauls him upright by the ear while a lantern shines in his face. They say they’re hunting a dog thief; Jud has only just arrived, and has no idea what they want with him.

It is the late 1870s in Dakota Territory, where the railroad has raised a rough little town from the prairie and the nearest neighbors are miles away. Eighteen-year-old Jud has left Ohio to see the world, but Track’s End offers him a stable job, a room with walls you can see through, and railroad graders growing rowdier by the hour. When his employer asks him to guard the barn overnight, Jud must face the town’s lawless temper alone—and winter is coming to a place everyone expects to abandon. What will be left at Track’s End when the snow arrives?

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