Leaving Kansas (Book 1 of Harrison Wilke)
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Leaving Kansas (Book 1 of Harrison Wilke)
By: Frank Roderus
Harrison Wilke is thoroughly sick of Redbluff, Kansas. The town is a boring dead end, filled with unlettered roughnecks.
His uncle Stewart - from whom he stands to inherit the Running W Ranch - can't stand him. Harrison doesn't even have enough money to get to the big city, where he belongs. There are few bright spots.
Things begin to look up when Uncle Stewart turns up missing and feared dead while chasing rustlers.
Then Harrison invests $4,000 in a very lucrative and secret deal. Of course Harrison "borrowed" the money from Uncle Stewart's safe.
And Harrison also seems to be winning at love. But things do come crashing down....
Paperback; 214 pages
ISBN: 978-1641192880
About the Author
Frank Roderus wrote his first story--it was a western--when he was five. It was really awful, as might be expected, but his mother kept that typed and spell-checked short story tucked away until the day she died.
Later, Frank became a newspaper reporter, thinking that books are written by authors which he most assuredly was not.
He kept trying to write though, and eventually did it wrong enough to learn how to get it right.
That first sale, a young adult novel published by Independence Press, was more than thirty years and a good many books ago.
As a journalist, the Colorado Press Association awarded Frank their highest award, the Sweepstakes Award, for the best news story of 1980, and the Western Writers of America has twice named Frank recipient of their prestigious Spur Award.
Frank passed away at age 73 in December 2015.
By: Frank Roderus
Harrison Wilke is thoroughly sick of Redbluff, Kansas. The town is a boring dead end, filled with unlettered roughnecks.
His uncle Stewart - from whom he stands to inherit the Running W Ranch - can't stand him. Harrison doesn't even have enough money to get to the big city, where he belongs. There are few bright spots.
Things begin to look up when Uncle Stewart turns up missing and feared dead while chasing rustlers.
Then Harrison invests $4,000 in a very lucrative and secret deal. Of course Harrison "borrowed" the money from Uncle Stewart's safe.
And Harrison also seems to be winning at love. But things do come crashing down....
Paperback; 214 pages
ISBN: 978-1641192880
About the Author
Frank Roderus wrote his first story--it was a western--when he was five. It was really awful, as might be expected, but his mother kept that typed and spell-checked short story tucked away until the day she died.
Later, Frank became a newspaper reporter, thinking that books are written by authors which he most assuredly was not.
He kept trying to write though, and eventually did it wrong enough to learn how to get it right.
That first sale, a young adult novel published by Independence Press, was more than thirty years and a good many books ago.
As a journalist, the Colorado Press Association awarded Frank their highest award, the Sweepstakes Award, for the best news story of 1980, and the Western Writers of America has twice named Frank recipient of their prestigious Spur Award.
Frank passed away at age 73 in December 2015.