Harvest of Fury (56 page)

Authors: Jeanne Williams

BOOK: Harvest of Fury

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My husband, Bob Morse, watched out for my natural history, especially details about birds. I would also bless and thank my agent, Claire Smith, ever supportive, empathetic, and resourceful; Meg Blackstone of Pocket Books for her sensitive and constructive ideas; Martin Asher, also of Pocket Books, for his interest and help; my excellent and painstaking typist, Leila Madeheim, who is so much more than that; my son, Michael, for reading with attention to military and weapon detail; and my daughter, Kristin, an indispensable critic.

Jeanne Williams
Tucson, Arizona

March 1980

About the Author

Born on the High Plains near the tracks of the Santa Fe Trail, Jeanne Williams's first memories are of dust storms, tumbleweeds, and cowboy songs. Her debut novel,
Tame the Wild Stallion
, was published in 1957. Since then, Williams has published sixty-eight more books, most with the theme of losing one's home and identity and beginning again with nothing but courage and hope, as in the Spur Awardâwinning
The Valiant Women
(1980). She was recently inducted into the Western Writers Hall of Fame, and has won four Western Writers of America Spur Awards and the Levi Strauss Saddleman Award. For over thirty years, Williams has lived in the Chiricahua Mountains of southeastern Arizona.

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, events, and incidents either are the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Cover design by Connie Gabbert

ISBN: 978-1-5040-3639-9

This edition published in 2016 by Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.

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