High Plains Tango by Waller, Robert James - 2005

New York: Shaye Areheart Books. New in New dust jacket. 2005. Second Printing. Hardcover. The wild places are where no one is looking anymore. Out there on the high plains, among the Sioux reservations and the silent buttes, among the small towns dying and the people with them, you can hear the wind. And on the back of the wind is the sound of an old accordian - tangos - mingling with the lonely thump of a single cry. To this, to a town called Salamander comes Carlisle McMillan, a traveler and master carpenter seeking a place of quiet amid the grinding roar of progress. He finds two very different, independent women. The women and his carpenter's trade and an old Indian known as Flute Player bring Carlisle a sense of contentment for a while. But his quiet is shattered as bulldozer treads begin to turn and the Yerkes Country War commences. Robert James Waller's fully imagined characters become people we know and care for deeply. This volume is the hauntingly lyrical story of a small town in the middle of nowhere, a town that forever changed, and was forever changed, by one man. 281 pages. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. .