DISCLAIMER: I ONLY read this book because of the 2020 PopSugar Reading Challenge category of "A Western". I do not like the genre as a whole. So when this category came up I picked the author because, as a life long M*A*S*H* the TV show fan, Col. Potter read Zane Grey all the time. So on a trip to a used book store I picked this book up.

So... I did not DISLIKE this book but I can't say I liked it either. Granted, I floated between reading the paperback and listening to the audio, depending on where I was. This book was full of all the tropes we associate with a western novel... ranchers and ranch hands, a single woman running her ranch alone struggling to not be bullied into wedding a town bigwig so he can have her land and fortune, a mysterious one name stranger (riding a blind horse), comes seeking revenge and ends up staying and helping the lady, lady and stranger fall in love and adopt an unwanted orphan child...

But then remembering this book was originally published in 1912... it may have been Zane Grey who helped establish all these tropes.

My biggest issues was actually with the editing of the audiobook. There were no pauses between the end of a chapter and the beginning of the next... heck they didn't wait for the reader to finish pronouncing the final word of the chapter before the next chapter began.

Would I recommend this book... I guess... if you like westerns. But I am not going to try to find book two in this apparent duology, let alone rush out to read anything else in this genre.