In pre-Civil War Virginia, six-year-old Trent Kinney was orphaned, adopted, then orphaned again. At fifteen, he met a tough gunman he worshipped, and in time, they headed west for Denver. Trent fell into a life of dangerous frontier adventure in Abilene, Kansas, then Colorado and New Mexico, where he found a lost Spanish gold mine in Apache high country.
Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA)
5.0 out of 5 stars A deftly written and riveting western, April 3, 2010
High Country (Paperback)
When Trent Kinney was six years old, his parents died. An orphan in Virginia just prior to the outbreak of the Civil War, he was adopted only to be orphaned for a second time. At the age of fifteen, Trent encountered a gunman whom he came to respect and headed with out west. It was growing up in the frontier that his adventures began, first in wide open Kansas cow town of Kansas, then on to Colorado and New Mexico country. Ultimately finding a forgotten Spanish gold mine. The problem was that the mine was deep into Apache controlled territory! "High Country" is a deftly written and riveting western, a novel composed and presented by a master storyteller of the first rank, making it a highly recommended selection for personal reading lists and community library collections. Readers new to Harold G. Ross will also want to look up his previous novels: Brannick; Horizons West; The Emerald Prairie; Uncharted Journey; Comanche Crossing; Across the Purple Divide; and Shannon.
