"A Bantam book."--T.p. verso. Bantam ed. / October 1970; New Bantam ed. / June 1971; Bantam reissue / June 1996; Bantam reissue / December 2002; Bantam reissue / June 2006; Bantam reissue / November 2008.
Summary:
Val Darrant was just four years old the snowy night his mother abandoned him. But instead of meeting a lonely death, he met Will Reilly--a gentleman, a gambler, and a worldly, self-taught scholar. For ten years they each were all the family the other had, traveling from dusty American boomtowns to the cities of Europe--until the day Reilly's luck ran out in a roar of gunfire. But it wasn't a gambling brawl or a pack of thieves that sealed Will's fate. It was a far more complex story that Val would soon uncover, one that touched upon Val's nearly forgotten childhood, the woman who was Will Reilly's lost love, and the violent future of a growing country.
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