Will Oakley, landlord and host, with his two daughters, beautiful Myrtle, and the repellent Harriet, waited to receive his guests. Along with the usual farmers, merchants and the "quality", there were others who fitted into none of these categories. Like the handsome foreigner with the scarred face, and the fat man who appeared to be gloating over some malicious secret of his own...

    Then Shipley's woman vowed revenge. She had Dave Nash and a group of hardcases to back her. Nash knew he should drift—but he was hair-triggered for trouble and this range war was shaping up to be his kind of fight—vicious.

    Beginning in 1905 with ninety-year-old Celia Dunne, it delightfully portrays the bustling life of her heir and grand-nephew, Humphrey Dunne, and his family of five rambunctious children. It follows the family over forty years -- through their youthful antics, merry parties, heartbreaks and loves and marriages, as each in turn comes to maturity and an understanding of the enduring satisfaction Dunnian gives to their lives.

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    Todd's affairs. Estes' humorous retelling of the Aesop's fable is perfectly illustrated by Slobodkin's hilarious brown & white pictures.

    The rigid conventions of the mountain people are a barrier to Fern Barrie and her father Peter, the only Democrat in the Republican valley, who decides to open a store just before elections, despite threats from his neighbors.