The long awaited first novel of master storyteller Stan Lynde begins during the last months of 1882 in Progress County, Montana Territory. With humor, suspense and authentic frontier atmosphere gained through a lifetime of living, researching and depicting the West, Lynde tells a story of adventure, romance and greed as Merlin Fanshaw, alias The Bodacious Kid, finds himself caught between the competing agendas of an outlaw band, two very different lawmen and one pretty girl. View table of contents...