David Wagoner (1926- 2021) was a two-time National Book Award finalist, an acclaimed poet, respected novelist and a beloved University of Washington professor. He won many prestigious awards, including two Pushcart Prizes, and was the author of ten novels, all of which we are re-issuing here and under our Brash Books imprint, and many poetry collections.
All four of the beloved and acclaimed westerns by David Wagoner, unforgettable novels that the Philadelphia Inquirer says prove that he is the "closest nowadays approximation of Mark Twain himself."
THE ROAD TO MANY A WONDER
WHERE IS MY WANDERING BOY TONIGHT?
TRACKER
WHOLE HOG
FOUR classic rip-roaring, action-packed western novels by three masters of the genre in one ebook edition.
WHERE IS MY WANDERING BOY TONIGHT? - David Wagoner
HEROINE OF THE PRAIRIES - Sheba Hargreaves
MEDICO OF PAINTED SPRINGS - James L. Rubel
WARD OF THE REDSKINS - Sheba Hargreaves
The return of the western classic that the Philadelphia Inquirer says proves that David Wagoner is the "closest nowadays approximation of Mark Twain himself."
It's 1852, and it's twenty-two-year-old Zeke Hunt's job is to herd his family's 28, insatiable, scissorbill hogs from Missouri to California, where the Hunts hope to start a new life. But after his family is massacred, he's forced to continue the perilous, wild, unpredictable journey across the Great Plains with what's left of his scalp, his three remaining hogs, and Casper, an old whiskey salesman that he befriends along the way.
