Dangerous Ground and Other Old West Short Stories

<p>Revisit the wild wild west during a time when unwritten rules of conduct for survival were never formal but respected everywhere on the range in this collection of ten rollicking short stories including:</p><p>Dangerous Ground: The town marshal quits his job yet he's reluctant to leave town once he hears about the mayor's plot to steal $200000 in gold.</p><p>Out of the Desert: Undercover Deputy U.S. Marshal Dan Boone correctly suspects a banker's plot to steal a gold shipment...</p><p>The Hero of Lost Creek: A crippled horse breaker turns hero when he foils cattle rustlers and wins the heart of the boss's daughter.</p><p>The Trail to Nowhere: With Indians hot on his heels a naked trapper and former schoolteacher runs into the forest in the dead of winter and uses little more than ingenuity to thwart his enemies and get all his stuff back.</p><p>Quickdraw: Using a special arm harness and pieces of an old corset Walker shoots it out with the town bully...</p><p>Square-Toed Boots: In a cow town his farmer's boots appear to make him fair game but when four cowboys dare to insult his wife they're about to get a lesson in good manners.</p><p>Come Morning: At twelve Sean Mixus can handle a Sharps .50 rifle like nobody's business but putting up with a bath at his sister's house every day forces him to consider O'Reilly and the trail herd as his best escape.</p><p>Gold is Where You Find It: Marcus and Saul swindle a greedy banker into buying a worthless gold mine leave town and they're living in what they believe is the lap of luxury when they read about a gold strike--right where their false map sent the banker!</p><p>Mad Dog Muncie: Two scoundrels at Fort Clark have been cheating folks and selling boys into slavery...but then Mad Dog Muncie appears to right a few wrongs.</p><p>Curley's Kids: Curley Samson is a lone trapper until he rescues two orphan kids and a pretty young woman and finds himself rescued from a life of loneliness in the process.</p>