Nevada Dawn by Georgina Gentry

Author:Georgina Gentry [Gentry, Georgina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Zebra Books
Published: 2014-08-27T00:00:00+00:00

Dallas laid aside her book and looked out the window at the late afternoon sun. Ben Hur. It was a good book, but reading it, she had thought about the territorial governor who wrote it, Lew Wallace, which made her think about the Lincoln County War, Billy the Kid, and her own son. Where was he today and what was he doing? They hadn’t heard from old Ben in a long time. He and Nevada might even be dead.

Balderdash. The boy was tough, he’d be all right. The fact that her brother Trace had taught her son to handle a gun was a mixed blessing.

She smiled and leaned back in her chair, thinking of Trace and the Triple D ranch in the Texas hill country between San Antonio and Austin. When her father, old Don Diego de Durango, had sent Dallas off to school before the Civil War began, she hadn’t wanted to go. Fact is, she’d been as difficult about it as a steer in a loading chute headed for the stockyards. Miss Priddy’s Female Academy in Boston. It probably hadn’t changed much in the more than twenty-five years. Had she ever told Cherish Blassingame that she herself had been a student there before she kicked over the traces and ran away?

Afraid to go home and face her father’s wrath, Dallas had to find a job. She was tall for a woman, slim hipped and small breasted; a Texas tomboy who could handle a gun and ride like the wind. In desperation, she had cut her hair, masqueraded as a boy, and ridden for the Pony Express. Quint Randolph had supplied horses for the Pony Express. And then the Paiute Indian War had begun.

Dallas frowned, not wanting to remember that part of her life. Timbi.

No, she would think of how happy she had been with Quint once they had left the Paiute country. Within months, the Civil War had begun and she couldn’t get back to Texas to see her family. Her husband’s namesake had been more than four years old and they had had another son by the time the war ended and the family could return to Texas to visit the giant Triple D ranch.

Trace. She saw her brother’s dark, handsome face before her now, and her beloved father, that dignified old gentleman with a white mustache. Dallas sighed. So many things had changed when she got back to the ranch, yet so many things were the same. She remembered alighting from the carriage with her small child in tow and Quint carrying the baby, Pierce. Even the ranchero’s feisty little Chihuahua pranced around her feet, yipping.

Papa hurried to meet her, along with old Sanchez, the ranch foreman; her brother Trace hugged her, shook Quint’s hand. Papa had tears in his eyes. “So much has happened,” he said. “I must tell you about your mother and Uncle Luis, Rosa, and little Turquoise.”

Trace frowned. “Papa, let’s get to that later; first, I want to introduce my sister to my new wife and to our adopted brother.

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