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A story of adventurous youth pushing the limits of 'proper conservative behavior,' set in a small town on the plains of Kansas in 1948.
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It is 1948. The war is over and the future looks bright. Truman is about to win an upset election for president and, equally surprising, Kansans are about to repeal a seventy year-old prohibition law. But all is not right in a little town straddling the junction of Mud Creek and the Cottonwood River. The local drunk is found hanging from the Santa Fe Railroad Bridge. Turmoil erupts between the sheriff and the local bootlegger. Because Moss was a friend, fifteen year-old Johnny gets in the middle of it all and, fearful and uncertain, he hunts for the truth. He finds trouble instead.