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Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
In "Speedy's Desert Dance" a young drifter runs into trouble after overhearing two outlaws plan a murder and kidnapping. A gripping story set during the War Between the States. "A Watch in the Wilderness" finds Marse Roberts' company in a trench as a sharpshooter in a tree above starts to shoot them, one by one. "The Good Badman" is Ed Garver, known in the ring as Kid Denver. It was hard luck that finished his fighting career, and that hard luck seems...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Carcajou's Trail" is about John Banner, who is hired to protect two men being led by a blind man to a rich cache of gold. "Señor Billy" Jeffers is admired by Mexicans but rejected by Anne Calhoun, who favors Dixie Trimble. Sworn not to hurt the cowardly Dixie, Bill sets out to make him a hero. In the title story, John Cameron, who is part Indian, faces prejudice when he tries to avenge the robbery and brutal murder of his partner in a mining claim....
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2012, c2009
Language
English
Description
John Signal is only twenty-two, but he's old enough to have killed a man. It was a fair fight, but the man was well-connected and he's charged with murder. Signal flees to the mining town of Monument, looking for a wrangling job as John Alias. When his horse is stolen, Sheriff Peter Ogden tells him that if he can get it back, he'll make him a deputy. Alias succeeds, and soon finds himself wedged between two bloodthirsty factions that rule the town....
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