Go-Ahead Rider Book

When George Tanner, recent Harvard graduate, returns home to Tahlequah in the Cherokee nation, Captain Go-Ahead Rider, the district sheriff, offers him employment as a deputy. Rider senses trouble as some key issues come up before the Council, the most controversial being whether the railroad should be allowed to come to town. Tanner soon finds himself smack in the middle of big money politics. As the two lawmen sort through a trail of blackmail, revenge and bootlegging, they uncover a nasty plot by some of the town's leading citizens. Tanner learns how to be a lawman, while at the same time experiencing the joy of being home, in his own land.

A member of the Cherokee tribe himself, author Conley uses his special knowledge of his people and their traditions to bring to life the Indian world of the West. A Harvard educated mixed-blood Cherokee gets an education of another kind when, upon his return to his Oklahoma home town, he is deputized and sent out on the trail of a murderer. Evans.