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Cloudy in the West

By: Elmer Kelton
Narrated by: full cast, Ken Jackson, Matthew McGee, Michael Glenn, Steven Carpenter, Ren Kasey, David Jourdan, Andy Clemence, Doug V Brown, Lily Beacon, Richard Rohan, Jonathon Church
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In the Texas backlands in 1885, 12-year-old Joey Shipman's father dies under mysterious circumstances, and the boy is forced to live with his stepmother and Blair Meacham, a hanger-on at the farm. After the death of a black farmhand and friend, and another "accident" that almost takes Joey's life, the boy runs away and joins forces with his only kin - Beau Shipman, a drunk and a jailbird. 

Beau, along with an outlaw, a San Antonio prostitute, and a sheepman, become Joey's unlikely partners as he is trailed by a murderous villain in a scheme to inherit the Shipman farm.

Performed by Ken Jackson, Matthew McGee, Michael Glenn, Steven Carpenter, Ren Kasey, David Jourdan, Andy Clemence, Doug V Brown, Lily Beacon, Richard Rohan, Jonathon Church, Tim Carlin, Dylan Lynch, Rose Elizabeth Supan, James Konicek, Terence Aselford, Christopher Graybill, David Harris, Scott McCormick, Bradley Smith, Nanette Savard, Michael John Casey, Duane Beeman.

©2011 Elmer Kelton (P)2014 Graphic Audio, LLC

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