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It was here in the small town with no name that Cody 'Cannibal' Wilkens arrived. The old mountain man was known for many other monikers. Some called him 'the Eater of Savages' Souls' or 'the Crow Nightmare' after the tribe he was most famously known to have feuded with. But it was his original nickname of 'the Cannibal' that stuck. It was the name most people remembered him by, because of his infamous actions against the Crow tribe.
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Devil´s Pass was an old trading route that ran through the state. The two main connecting towns to his by way of Black Foot and Tender Foot. He had heard that bad things had happened at Black Foot.The local Sheriff, called Bean, had been caught red-handed playing nursemaid to a group of Confederate soldiers still fighting a war that was over a few months ago. No sir, there was no way that Santi would be riding through Black Foot. Sheriff Bean hated...
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Bob Upton, a shrewd businessman and exotic hunter, has lost something more valuable to him than his fortune. He's lost his son. While on an outing to the county fair, accompanied by a servant, young Ned Upton disappears, with only a cold trail behind.Being a financial founder of the Austin's Texas Rangers, Upton turns to the only place he believes he can find help in locating his son. A young and somewhat inexperienced Ranger by the name of Sam Granger...
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Claude Wingarten was a trapper, and a darn good one. Life for him was good, with one exception: his first-born, and only, child, was a girl. Eleonor 'Leo' was raised as the son her father never had but always wanted.Life during the Civil War and mass migration to settle the south was hard enough, but even more so if you were a young woman being raised in the middle of nowhere. Young Eleonor thought she'd never find a suitable husband in the midst...
6) Ambushed
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Consumed by greed, the leading citizens of Stockton, map out a daring plan to steal to the proceeds from the sale of a ranch and a cattle herd by a prominent local rancher, Jake Warren, who is moving his family to Wyoming.When the hired gun fails to do the job as planned, the conspirators frame the man's son, the only survivor of the planned murders, as the good son, gone bad, over his love for a local girl.Falsely accused of murdering his family,...
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He poured some more whiskey down his shot glass and offered Heisman some for himself. Heisman accepted, and Wilkens poured some of the alcohol into his bottle. Heisman was a moderate drinker himself, but nowhere near as prodigious as Wilkens was."It's fine. I reckon you've truly a taste for good whiskey." Heisman said."And you want to write your dime novel. I might as well oblige you with some of my fancy tales. After all, you are paying for the tab...
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In the middle of the very active saloon, sat a solitary figure. The young man sat alone drinking. He was sitting all by his lonesome on a table in the middle of the busy establishment. He was met by a few friendly glances by some of the patrons, and he politely smiled back at them. The young man was known around these parts as Billy La Roca. Billy was a friendly and amicable sort, and a lot of people thought well of him around town.
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The bounty hunter rode into the small town. It was a nondescript town that was in the middle of nowhere. You wouldn't find the town on most maps in any of the territories. It even seemed deserted. As he entered the town, he could hear the rustle and howl of the winds as he made his way to the sheriff's office."He's here, right on the dot." one of the men said. There were four men with the sheriff in the office that day. They were all expecting the...
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The men wore fur hats and other clothes fashioned from animal skins. They were reasonably armed with Hawking rifles and pistols for firearms. Some of the men were also armed with knives axes, and hatchets. They also had a sufficient supply of ammunition but it was clear that the men would rather not have to use their weapons if they could afford it. The men were mostly white Protestants, early settlers of this relatively young country. They had come...
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He opened fire on the men. He fired a single shot at Casim and the shot struck him in the head. The man was killed instantly and he did not manage to fire a single shot. The other three men were already moving to draw their guns, but the bounty hunter moved faster. He fired at one man and the shot hit him in the gut. The man dropped to the ground. Another shot ripped through a man's skull, and he was dead before he hit the ground. The bounty hunter's...
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A daring bank robbery leaves one robber wounded and the bank manager dead. Sticking to their original plan the two robbers leave town separately to allay suspicions, planning to rendezvous in the nearby forest and split the loot. But even the best of plans can go arie.A young farmer out hunting mistakes the wounded robber for a wild animal and accidentally kills him. While searching through the dead man's belongings he comes across the money from...
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As a bounty hunter, Judson Law was constantly finding himself in stressful situations. After a long ride, he came into a small town in search of a hot bath, a meal, and a good rest. What he got was far more than he bargained for. Judson Law would find himself in a fight for his freedom and his life, from a very unusual source.
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Dillon was ten and worked at the livery stables. He fed the horses, groomed them, and did his favorite duty-mucking out the stalls. He worked every day from six a.m. until nine a.m. when he went to school. Then, when school let out around three o'clock, he went back to work and worked till seven or whenever he finished bedding down the new arrivals. On the weekends, he worked six a.m. until three p.m. both days. Today was a Tuesday, and he was late...
15) Rich & Lucky
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"Rich and lucky, Lydia! That's what you're destined to be, rich and lucky!"There was a bright gleam in Hiram Haydensfield's eyes. Lydia Baker knew that look in her husband's eyes, all too well."Oh Hiram! Here you go, again! I know what you're going to say."Lydia wanted to interrupt Hiram, and cut him off, but Hiram would not have any of it. She knew that he would not let her, but she had to try. She had heard him rattle off his dreams over and over...
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Once the coffin splintered into several pieces, Lincoln fell into the water. His wrists were still handcuffed, and there was no way that he could swim to safety. He was still reeling from the impact of the fall, and he couldn't kick up to the surface. Lincoln was too tired to fight, and simply accepted his fate.But it was to be a fate that even he did not expect.From out of nowhere, he felt hands grab onto him, and pull him away from the river's beckoning...
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The first thing I noticed about the bullfighter was his loud and booming voice. That was the first thing that would have struck anyone about him. I was seated in the middle of the small, but packed arena in the middle of Mexico. Beside me was Ronaldo Matanza one of the wealthier men in the bario. Matanza was a wealthy and powerful man with his own group of regulators that watched him wherever he went. His power reached far from just the tiny bario...
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The life of an outlaw is never an easy one. Men that go down that path are destined to be hunted all the days and nights of their lives. It's a life of constantly being on the run from the law, never having one permanent address, and always looking over your shoulder for the long arm of the law. There's hardly any comfort when you're alive, and it usually ends in only three ways. Either you get caught and spend the remainder of your days in the slammer,...
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Simon Michael Johns kept walking straight ahead through the small town's main road. He did not look around him, but merely kept his gaze straight ahead. The small and sleepy town did not look any different from the other towns that Simon drifted through. As the gunslinger "Swift Mercy" Johns, he had seen his fair share of gun battles, and had drifted through many towns in his travels. After a while, they all looked the same to him. The buildings and...
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"They've got us surrounded, John!" Potts said.Colter nodded grimly. "I know. They're signaling us to paddle to shore. I don't think we have much of a choice." he said.Potts did not answer his friend. He was already hastily loading and priming his musket. He would be able to get a single shot off, at best. At worst, the Indians would probably scalp him before he even managed to fire. Both men silently acknowledged that their deaths were imminent.Colter...
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