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The Christmas Ranch
The Christmas Ranch
The Christmas Ranch
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The Christmas Ranch

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The Christmas Ranch is a modern-day Western. Based on a horse-and-cattle ranch outside of Roundup, Montana, the daughter of TJ Dawson is violently raped and left for dead. TJ and two friends go looking for the culprits that expand over three states. What happens after they catch the bad guys occupy the rest of the book. Its about a family that goes through hell and is blown apart but able to come together again. The book is not meant for children. Its full of twists and turns to keep the reader guessing.
LanguageEnglish
PublisherXlibris US
Release dateJul 31, 2017
ISBN9781543434644
The Christmas Ranch
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David A. Ward

David Ward is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Minnesota. He is the coauthor (with Gene Kassebaum) of Prison Treatment and Parole Survival and coeditor (with Kenneth Schoen) of Confinement in Maximum Custody: New Last-Resort Prisons in the United States and Europe. Ward served as consultant to the U.S. House of Representatives' Committee on the Judiciary for an investigation at Alcatraz's successor, the Federal Penitentiary at Marion, Illinois, and is a member of a consultant group investigating prison gang policies in the California Department of Corrections. Gene Kassebaum is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Hawaii and has also coauthored with Ward, Women's Prison: Sex and Social Structure.

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