Black Horse Western
6 total works
Drew Duncan, a railway tycoon with a host of enemies, was dead and surprisingly, the coroner decreed it a natural death. Then at his elaborate funeral, there appeared a young stranger who shot the corpse crying, "So you died before I could get round to killing you, you lying old fraud". The shooter was Chico, his illegitamate son.
Cassidy, Waco and Pike rode south, bought a piece of land and settled down to a quiet life. But Buffalo County was not what it seemed and the trio found themselves buckling on their guns to fight for survival.
They were hanging Barney Hackett by the pearly light of dawn. That was how it began - with blood. And as it began, so would it end, in violence, gunsmoke and terror. For both good men and bad, for preacher man, lawman and even a straight-shooting mountain man like Jack Ransom, there can be no way out when bands of the gun-wolves and bitter war veterans come together in the high country and their fierce hatreds explode at the place of death that will always be known to those who survive it as Ransom's Mountain. Few, though, were destined to live through it all.
Duty ahd brought Duane Everson from the warm south back to cold Montana where he'd never expected an arrogant father and suspicious siblings to make his homecoming anything but tough. But the reality was worse thatn he could ever have imagined, for evil was abroad in the high country.
