03896cam a2200361 4500 521390563 TxAuBib 20210904120000.0 ||||||s1994||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780547524139 0547524137 B003UHVNOW Amazon 7077ad6d-6c94-4ace-bc9f-e34fb05a98ea OverDrive (Reserve ID) 574714 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Morgan, Speer. The Whipping Boy [Libby eBook] : A Novel. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1994. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 1102kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. HTML:<p><b>An "engaging" novel of hardship, danger, and frontier adventure in the Oklahoma Territory at the end of the nineteenth century (<i>Publishers Weekly</i>).</b><br /> <br /> The Oklahoma Territory is a bleak, brutal place in 1894, especially for Tom Freshour, a half-Indian who knows nothing of the world beyond the orphanage where he's been raised by a sadistic minister who forces him to bear witness to a botched public hanging. But Tom is about to get a bracing education, thanks especially to two people: Jake Jaycox, an aging hardware salesman who takes Tom under his wing, and Samantha King, a beautiful, mysterious woman who attaches herself to the two men and promptly seduces Tom.<br /> <br /> The adventures of this colorful trio begin with a horrific flood—but the story turns darker when Tom and his companions run afoul of a scheme to steal thousands of acres from depression-ravaged farmers. Before long, they are being chased by a hired killer—and Tom's searing memories of his childhood drive him back to the orphanage and a violent confrontation with the man who made him a whipping boy. As Tom learns more about the world around him, he suspects that the real villains in this unforgiving territory may not be the outlaws with six-guns, but the businessmen who will do anything to amass wealth and property.<br /> <br /> "A rollicking page-turner. I read it once with a fierce compulsion to find out what would happen, a second time for the pleasure of the language and craft." —Wally Lamb, author of <i>She's Come Undone</i><br /> <br /> "Here is the real West in its lurid twilight—the Oklahoma Indian Territory when the last land grab was under way. Here too is a good mystery [and] a bawdy romance. . . . Every vignette of frontier life—flood, train wreck, blizzard, bank, brother, or church—is authentic." —Will Baker, author of <i>Hell, West, and Crooked</i><br /> <br /> "Brings alive the pain and shame of a little-read chapter of history, when greed ruled, thievery wore a frock coat, and guile was the governing virtue." —Charles Gusewelle, columnist, <i>The Kansas City Star</i></p>. Literature. Thriller. Fiction. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 13:30:24. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0874-1/707/7AD/6D/WhippingBoy9780547524139.epub Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=7077AD6D-6C94-4ACE-BC9F-E34FB05A98EA&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0874-1/707/7AD/6D/WhippingBoy9780547524139.epub Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=7077AD6D-6C94-4ACE-BC9F-E34FB05A98EA&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0874-1/707/7AD/6D/WhippingBoy9780547524139.epub Excerpt (OverDrive Read) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=7077AD6D-6C94-4ACE-BC9F-E34FB05A98EA&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)