Title: Ride the Wild River (Reno Western Saga #3)
First published: 1992
Description: Jim Reno is a down-and-out drifter until he meets a frightened teenager claiming to be his cousin. Fleeing a brutal stepfather, the young runaway hires Reno to ride West with a wagon train. The train's motley assortment of settlers includes the surly wagon master and his barbaric sons, a world-weary English dandy and his woman, a penniless preacher, and families searching for a new home in a hard land. The way west is rugged. The settlers must face the scorching plains, constant fights among the men, sickness, a thieving gunfighter and his cronies, and a mysterious, vengeful Indian chief named Nightwalker. And Reno must face the question of the real identity of the young runaway.

*Originally published as* The Runaway.
Subjects: Fiction, Jim Reno (Fictitious character), Pharmaceutical industry, Government policy, Foreign Investments
LC classification: PS3563.O8742 R8 1992