Historical Novel Society reviews Crippled Jack by Boston Teran

Here’s an excerpt from the review:

“The powerful narrative unfolds the plight of downtrodden workers like those who toil at a Leadville mine where smoke-blackened ‘runoff down the hillface looked like blood that had rusted over.’…Far from a genre Western, critical events from 19th-century Leadville labor strife provide rich historical backdrop for this heavily fictionalized account that strives for a moral reckoning that surely wasn’t achieved in the cases of many of the workers on whose backs our nation expanded.”

For the full review, click here.