The Dark Between the Stars

In The Summer Of 1923 Eighteen-Year Old Elijah Cockburn Is Enjoying Typical Small-Town Midwestern Life In Menninger North Dakota When A Confrontation Forces Him And His Friends Merle And Pearl And Their Cousin Axel To Hitch A Freight And Head Into The American West. Awaiting Them Are Wobblies Railroad Bulls Bootleggers The Jack Dempsey-Tommy Gibbons Title Fight Hobo Jungles Pickpockets President Warren G. Harding And San Francisco Where Elijah'S Brother Josh Shows Him A New Way To Look At Life. Memorable Characters Such As Twig Bear Boss Lucretia Hiram And His Dog Jj Miss Hoar Black Betty White Hair And Duke Inhabit The Novel.