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The narrative follows Rawley King as he returns to his family homestead and is drawn into long-standing family tensions embodied by a brooding grandfather and his loyal Indigenous attendant, Johnny Buffalo. Frontier disputes over land and mining along the Colorado escalate into confrontations between protective and predatory forces, framed by recurring eagle and vulture imagery. The plot moves through investigations, uprisings, shifting alliances, rescues, and personal reckonings that expose hidden pasts and loyalties. Themes include legacy, the moral costs of greed, cultural collision, and the choices required to defend place and people in a harsh landscape.

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Title: The eagle's wing: A story of the Colorado

Author: B. M. Bower

Illustrator: Frank Tenney Johnson

Release date: August 5, 2022 [eBook #68692]
Most recently updated: October 18, 2024

Language: English

Original publication: United States: Little, Brown and Company, 1924

Credits: Roger Frank and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.)

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THE EAGLE’S WING

By B. M. Bower
Good Indian
Lonesome Land
The Ranch at the Wolverine
The Flying U’s Last Stand
The Heritage of the Sioux
Starr, of the Desert
Cabin Fever
Skyrider
Rim o’ The World
The Quirt
Cow-Country
Casey Ryan
The Trail of the White Mule
The Voice at Johnnywater
The Parowan Bonanza
The Eagle’s Wing

The man in the distance ducked out of sight amongst the bowlders.

THE EAGLE’S WING
A STORY OF THE COLORADO
BY
B. M. BOWER
WITH FRONTISPIECE BY
FRANK TENNEY JOHNSON
BOSTON
LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY
1924
Copyright, 1924,
By Little, Brown, and Company.
All rights reserved
Published February, 1924
Printed in the United States of America
To the American Eagle,
fighting always the Vultures of the earth;
whose protective wing extends even into the
desert lands; whose shadow has fallen upon
the great river, this story of the Colorado is
loyally inscribed.
B. M. B.