The Freebooters of the Wilderness

"The Freebooters of the Wilderness" by Agnes C. Laut

Agnes Christina Laut was a Canadian journalist, novelist, historian, and social worker. Though he doesn't know it, Dick Wayland is on the threshold of taking on the wily Senator Moyese, a robber baron. Wayland knows that fighting him is a lost cause. The man holds all the cards. For one thing, he owns one of the local newspapers and has Bat Brydges, who manages what's printed in the other two. The Senator even has the local sheriff in his pocket.