Dutch Uncle

by Marilyn Durham

The dust was usually ankle deep in the streets of Tucson when the wind wasn't blowing it around. The merchants tried putting planks down at the corners for the ladies to cross on, but every wagon that came along knocked them apart and stirred the dirt over them until they were nearly invisible. It had been a good thought though. --- --- Fleeing the wiles of a San Francisco woman in March 1880, Jake Hollander arrives in a New Mexico mining town as the incredulous and outraged custodian of a pair of Mexican orphans. He's a hard, mean man of forty-five, former gun-slinger, present cardsharp, whose plan is to dump Paco and Urraca and keep right on going to El Paso and a new career as a saloonkeeper. But out of Jake's strenuous past step the publisher of the Arredondo newspaper and his sister, Carrie. And even Jake has second thoughts about entrusting two small children to the ladies of the Golden Moon.

Genres: Westerns, Historical, Historical Fiction

303 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1973

About the author

Marilyn Durham, née Marilyn Wall, born September 8, 1930, is an American author of fiction. Her best-known novel is her first, The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing, which was made into a film of the same name.

Reviews

[Brenda · Rating 5 out of 5]

I think this is my top western book that I love! I have read it so many times, but I always seem to loan it out and never get it back. But I have two copies of it now! Found second copy. It is split in the middle of the book.

[Carl · Rating 3 out of 5]

not my usual type of old western book from the 70's but ok