Trail to the Palisades

This is the second in a 3-novel series featuring Dan Currie a gambler turned business man in an 1870s gold mining town high in the Colorado Rockies. Currie had always considered himself a lucky man. Hed won a non-producing gold mine in a poker game and soon hit one of the biggest strikes in Colorado. He and his wife Etta now owned several mines a bank a hotel and a large ranch with thousands of cattle. But Curries luck had suddenly turned bad. A huge explosion tore his highest producing gold mine apart. His bank was robbed. One of his young cowboys was brutally murdered when rustlers hit his ranch. Currie was shot off a cliff and nearly drowned. And now someone had hired Sam Gash a dangerous professional assassin to murder him. Lightening fast with a gun Gash was also known to kill from ambush on occasion. One thing was certain. When Gash and Currie met someone would surely die.