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Giefer Ranch |
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WaKeeney, Kansas
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Mosiah Brennan only wants to be a cowboy but life just hasn’t worked out that way. Follow his journey as he goes from being the cook on an outdated ranch to nursemaid for a dysfunctional urban Texas family transplanted to rural Kansas. Brennan manages to keep to the moral high ground in a difficult situation far from his choosing. Email from a rancher in Iowa: “I just finished your book. It is as good as I have ever read!!”
Jim Russet is a former Nebraska State Trooper but a traffic accident sends him into early retirement. He takes the position of investigative officer in a rural county that is suddenly beset by a cunning killer.
Jim Russet returns in this whodunit involving an intriguing web of local politics. Who knew it could be deadly to serve on City Council?
Death of an Indian (Short Story) Set in 1868, the story of a woman abandoned on the prairie with her two small children. She knows how to hitch the team to the wagon but she doesn’t know where to point them. The only humans nearby are Indians whom she has neither seen nor heard. But she is terrified of them nonetheless.
Winter to Spring (Short Story)
Burr Combs shows up as an answer to the prayers of an aging couple whose children have left the ranch, leaving them all the work. But while he is game to help out, they are left wondering why he rides a horse eleven miles to work while his pickup gathers dust. Or why he converted a long abandoned one-room schoolhouse into a tiny home. Or why he seems to be so utterly alone in the world.
About the Author Nishi Giefer (Nishi rhymes with Fishy; Giefer sounds like geezer), is a homeschooler of 4 elementary students, producer of Red Angus seedstock and quarter horses, part-time ranch veterinarian, and recovering farrier. Her writing stems from a need to fill an hour a week of “free time,” a desire to save on psychiatric bills, and the narcissism of sharing the characters inhabiting her mind. Thanks for reading these stories and feel free to send flattering praise by email to: nishi@gieferranch.com
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High Plains Fiction |