BONE COUNTRY — Western Screenplay
Nevada Territory, 1873: a half-Paiute bounty hunter tracks a Chinese railroad worker across six days of desert and arrives at the truth too late to pretend she did not find it.
When WEI LIANG kills a brutal foreman in self-defense after witnessing a co-worker murdered on the Central Pacific grade, he flees into the Humboldt Sink with a bounty on his head. RUTH CALLOWAY, a half-Paiute tracker hired to bring him in, reads the desert for six days and finds a story the railroad cannot afford to have told.
- Genre: Western
- 100 pages
- Language: EN
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BONE COUNTRY
When WEI LIANG kills a brutal foreman in self-defense after witnessing a co-worker murdered on the Central Pacific grade, he flees into the Humboldt Sink with a bounty on his head. RUTH CALLOWAY, a half-Paiute tracker hired to bring him in, reads the desert for six days and finds a story the railroad cannot afford to have told.
Nevada Territory, 1873: a half-Paiute bounty hunter tracks a Chinese railroad worker across six days of desert and arrives at the truth too late to pretend she did not find it.
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