Stranger in Thunder

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>JOHN D. NESBITT FOUR - TIME WINNER OF THE SPUR AWARD</strong></p><p></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Edward Dawes is a small boy when a stranger comes to call and shoots down his grandfather. Ed remembers what the assassin looked like. Years later working in a blacksmith shop Ed sees the man learns his name and finds out he works for a rancher named Mort Ramsey.</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Ed learns to do ranch work so he can work his way into that world. He meets an old drunk who knows a great deal and he meets a girl named Ravenna who is an orphan like himself. Ed goes to work on Ramsey's ranch where he has to deal with a lackey who catches him at his detective work. The old assassin seems to be onto him and Ed has a confrontation with him. He goes to see the old drunk for more information and the drunk tells him to go ask a woman named Leah Corrigan. The woman treats him like a stranger. Stonewalled Ed goes back to the old drunk to draw out more of the shadowy stories from the past.</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Ed goes to Ravenna and tells her that he is piecing together the details of his early life. He tells her that he has to go once more to the ranch in Thunder Basin and he hopes to be able to see her again.</span></p><p></p>