Nathan Blaylock is a hard young man -- toughened to rawhide by his mentor, an old gun-slinger named Jim Riley, and by his heritage. For he is the illegitimate son of the legendary Wyatt Earp.In The Wolfs Cub, Blaylock and Riley had briefly worked for corrupt Captain E.T. Barnette, who was determined to open a trading post at Tanana Crossing, but never made it up the river. Barnette's tenacity now pays off with the nearby discovery of gold, and his forlorn outpost becomes the bustling boomtown called Fairbanks. Overnight, Fairbanks is transformed from a canvas-tent outpost to a brick and stone city, including the imposing bank Barnette founds to safely horde all the gold he extracts from the miners as tribute.When Nathan and Riley come up against the venal Barnette and oppose the Fairbanks king-pin, only Wyatt Earp and his pack of retired gunfighters can come to Blaylock's aid and rid the city of Barnette and his corrupt gang.
- ISBN10 031286020X
- ISBN13 9780312860202
- Publish Date 1 November 1998
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 9 January 2001
- Publish Country US
- Imprint St Martin's Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 352
- Language English