Absaroka by Joan Bochmann

A troubled young man returns from the Vietnam War to seek refuge at the family’s ranch in northern Wyoming, only to find his beloved home devoid of cattle, his mother gone, and his father only a shell of his former self. He soon learns that anthrax wiped out the livestock and his father mortgaged the ranch to fund his mother’s cancer treatment. The owner of the mortgage, is determined to sell the ranch for big bucks to a corporation with mining interests. How is Matt, who is already suffering PTSD and grief for his mother, going to find the strength—and the money—to get his ranch back? Winner of an “Ippy” award from Independent Publishers Group in 2006 and Honorable Mention for general fiction by the Hollywood Book Festival,

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