{"product_id":"the-butcher-on-colfax","title":"The Butcher on Colfax","description":"On an autumn day in 1890, eighteen-year-old Alice Butler and her sister Nora step out the massive doors of the Union A character-driven Irish immigrant historical saga set in Gilded Age Denver—frontier survival, labor tension, and the quiet power of women rebuilding after loss.\n\nDenver, 1890. Four young Irish immigrants step off the train at Union Depot into a city booming with promise—and hungry for cheap labor. Alice Butler arrives with her sister Nora, determined to build a life bigger than the one they left behind. Thomas Quinn, a skilled carpenter, brings his craft and a fierce belief in dignity for working people. Emmett Kelly, a butcher with sharp ambition, sees opportunity everywhere—and plans to take his share.\n\nOver the next decade, their lives braid together through romance, rivalry, and hard-won survival as Denver transforms from rough frontier town to cosmopolitan hub.\n\nThen a petty argument over a cut of beef turns brutal: a knife fight, one man dead, the other convicted of manslaughter. Two families are shattered.\n\nBut Denver keeps rising. And in the aftermath, the two widows—bound by loss and unexpectedly drawn to each other—forge a friendship that becomes a partnership, building a future neither the city nor their past ever offered them.\n\nA meticulously researched story about what women build when the men are gone.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: B0D6GC4QVP\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.B0D6GC4QVP.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Tierney, J.T.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Gently used with minimal wear on the corners and cover. A few pages may contain light highlighting or writing, but the text remains fully legible. Dust jacket may be missing, and supplemental materials like CDs or codes may not be included. May be ex-library with library markings. Ships promptly!  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41384740913210,"sku":"DBV.B0D6GC4QVP.G","price":6.35,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/B0D6GC4QVP-0.jpg?v=1777484639","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/the-butcher-on-colfax","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}