Thanks for voting!  The choice was overwhelmingly in favor of cover 2 as it is.  So I’m keeping it and replacing Mitch’s name with Clayton’s.  😀  I appreciate all the feedback because it helped a lot.  Also, since some people wanted to see a bride in the background, I’m thinking of doing that for a future cover: maybe a mail-order bride one.

Here’s the new cover:

Now I can get to the task of rewriting parts of it to fit the Nebraska world.  😀