When his best friend is killed by a vicious psychopath, Willie Goodwin tracks the killer across the stark wilderness of the Dakota Territory

Product Description: In a novel rejected by a major publisher in the late nineteenth century as too shocking for its time, Charles W. Chesnutt challenges the notion that race, class, education, and gender must define where one's "rightful" place in society should be...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Hired by the Pinkerton agency to track down the infamous outlaw Jesse James, ex-con Willie Goodwin finds himself drawn to the lives of the James and Younger clans and especially to James's cousin Sarah Cole. Original.