{"product_id":"forty-feet-west-9798199358422","title":"Forty Feet West","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Emmett Laramie\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Legal\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA widow's eastern boundary line has moved forty feet west. The corrected survey\u003cbr\u003eis properly filed, the filing agent licensed, the paperwork in order. Nora\u003cbr\u003eVane's irrigation ditch - the one that waters her south field - now belongs to\u003cbr\u003ethe Creston Land Cooperative, which acquired the adjacent parcel six months ago. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWard Colton arrives in Creel, New Mexico Territory, with a folder, a field\u003cbr\u003ecompass, and the kind of patience that makes dishonest men uncomfortable. He is\u003cbr\u003enot looking for violence. He is looking for the first place the record stopped\u003cbr\u003ebeing true. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhat he finds in the Holt County filing index is not one fraudulent survey. It\u003cbr\u003eis a pattern - small, unhurried, nearly invisible to anyone who doesn't know\u003cbr\u003ewhat ink was commercially available in the territory in the fall of 1881. The\u003cbr\u003eCreston Land Cooperative has been acquiring water access across the Meridian\u003cbr\u003eFork corridor one corrected boundary at a time, and the people who filed the\u003cbr\u003epaperwork knew exactly what they were doing. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eForty Feet West is a quiet thriller set in the world of territorial land\u003cbr\u003erecords - where the real weapon is a notary seal and the most dangerous man in\u003cbr\u003ethe county is the one with a licensed surveyor on retainer.","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47968749748375,"sku":"9798199358422","price":790.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798199358422.webp?v=1782919268","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/forty-feet-west-9798199358422","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}