Discover The Idaho Territory as it really was in the mid 1800's.

This story of the Idaho Territory is cut from the sharp memories of the hard  miners, ranchers, and lawmen riding back and forth along the Bitterroot Trail.  Their memories are the backbone of the larger than life characters which struggle against all odds to make a better life for themselves. Here is a struggle for a gold nugget the size of your thumb, a little ways along the trail the rape and murder of your sister, a bit further on, the undieing love of a woman born to your mortal enemy, and at the crest of ridge -- the sharp pain of bullet through the thigh.

"Pokerface” Bob Bainbridge finds this struggle, to be the only right action to take, showing the desperation and innocence of the tenderfoot turning into the cold efficiency of the White Hatted hero. 

Pitted against him, boss man Jake Plummer, sometimes sheriff, sometimes thief, he directed many jumped claims, the death of miners, and plain murdered anyone in his way.  That is, until Pokerface Bob Bainbridge showed up, seeking the man who'd ruined his sister--and out for personal revenge.

From the saloons of Oro Fino to the tent cites of the Boise Basin, Bob follows the iniquitous "innocence" gang, determined to bring law and order to the Territory and to save the woman he  has grown to love from a fate far worse than death -- at the hands of Plummer himself. Only incredible courage and steely determination will win the day.

The Bitterroot Trail was originally published during 1935, both in the United States and in england. It is a classic western novel, but it is also an exciting romance and one heck of a remarkable historical novel.

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What others are saying about the Bitterroot Trail:

"Hats off to the Johnsons for bringing this action packed tale of the wild west to life again. A story of old when men were men and women were women and together they tamed the wilderness and made it home.  A great read! "
--   Connie Crow, Author, Daughter of the Dragon.

"The Bitterroot Trail" by James W. Johnson, takes readers deep into Idaho's rugged mountain terrain and into a world where saloons packed with drunks and dancing girls rule the social scene and gunfights control power. The historical novel weaves fictional characters with real locations to fill the piece with action, drama and information on a snippet of Idaho's past. .... "The Bitterroot Trail" offers an action-packed summer reading escape."
--  Francy Marcotte,  Boise State Arbiter


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