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The Ghost of Major Pryor: A Novel of Murder in the Montana Territory, 1870
The Ghost of Major Pryor A Novel of Murder in the Montana Territory 1870 Author:Donald Honig "If it has anything to do with the war, I don't want to hear it," says Capt. Tom Maynard, trying to stop a flood of saloon reminiscences. To which his companion replies, "Maynard, right now if you eliminate the war from honest discourse the country will fall silent." — It's five years after the end of the Civil War, an... more »d Capt. Maynard is in the Montana Territory town of Baddock to track down a heroic Union officer who was supposedly killed in action but who seems to have resurfaced as a murderer. Maynard--who made an impressive debut in The Sword of General Englund--is even more interesting this time around. He is a man scarred and compromised by his own wartime experiences but trying hard to hold himself together, as is the country.« less