Dustup At Deadhorse

<p>Chance Hollister is hired to find a young girl who followed her husband to the gold fields of Colorado.  Her mother has not heard from her daughter Lucy in three years and is not well; she wants the girl to come home before it is too late.  Chance thinks the search is a lost cause but cannot turn the woman down.  He follows the girl's trail from Missouri to Colorado and finally to the lead mining region of Kansas.  He finds Lucy now a widow who did not want her mother to know how she had been living in the years since she left home.</p><p>     Doctor Harley Mortimore left his sweetheart to study abroad unaware that she was carrying his child.  Years later he returns a bitter and resentful man who finally learns of the daughter he never knew he had.</p><p>In his earlier occupation as a lawman Chance brought in an outlaw who spent six years in prison and vowed to give the detective a bullet for each year he was behind bars; he's out now and determined to follow through with his plan for revenge.  </p><p>     All these people will converge in Deadhorse.</p><p>57500 words</p>