Western Writers of America
Roundup Magazine
CHEEK, ROLAND. The Silver Yoke. Skyline Publishing Co., pap., $16.95. ISBN 0-918981-13-1.
Roland finishes the Valediction for Revenge series with the sixth volume: The Silver Yoke. He continues the story of Jethro Spring, the mixed son of an Indian mother and a mountain man father. After being responsible for the death of his sweetheart's father, Jethro leaves his homestead and returns to Leadville, Colorado, where he owns a mine he inherited from his good friend Gunnar Einarssen. Burdened with guilt Jethro tries to drown himself in alcohol, but when the Amalgamated Minerals & Mining Company wants to buy his mine, he swears off liquor. Amalgamated Minerals & Mining killed his friend Gunnar, and Jethro intends to exact revenge. But Jethro will be paying back Amalgamated for more than Gunnar's life; the company is owned by the Burroughs family, and a member of that family is Jethro's sworn enemy. It will be poetic justice to ruin Amalgamated and Ellis Burroughs, the man who nearly destroyed Jethro and married the only woman he ever loved. This novel has lots of action, a terrific villain you love to hate, the smell of dust and dynamite, and a man sworn to bleed his enemies, not of blood but of money, the only thing they love.
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The Silver Yoke
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