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1887 The Day They Turned The Water Off
1887 The Day They Turned The Water Off | A.E Wasserman
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Spring 1887. Melting snowpack from the high Sierras will soon turn California’s Central Valley into lush fields, but an armed man with a Sharps rifle shut off a headwater gate to a water-ditch and stood guard. After an unexpected confrontation with Double B Ranch owner, Jake Sanders, along with ranch-hand Kacha, this gunman now lies dead and Jake along with wounded Kacha, are both jailed for murder. The unscrupulous lobbyist who ‘steals to get the office and who gets the office to steal,” Billy “Boss” Carr, claims to know nothing about the man or the situation, in spite of owning the land where the headwater gate is. Water is profitable for Carr, however, and he is aligned with both the prosecutor and judge. It is up to Jake’s wife, Sally, to find a way to prove Jake and Kacha’s innocence; the truth of the matter. But with these powerful men stacking the odds against her, can she? Or will she watch both men hanged?
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This Novella had me glued to my seat. Once the initial stages of the story were out of the way and after a hired gun slinger had been killed with a ranch owner and a native American being accused of murder, the court case begins. The case itself was riveting, conjuring up scenes in my mind so vivid that I could have been in the courtroom myself. 1887 set in the California's Central Valley its a thoroughly worthwhile enjoyable read.

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