Description"Town of Twenty Triggers" opens this new Trio of short novels by Les Savage Jr., marking their first appearance in book form.
Gordie Hammer carried the m.
The daring robbery was perpetrated by the Teton Bunch, but afterward the gang was forced to break up and scatter.
In "The Teton Bunch" it is all a matter of following the money--630 gold double eagles stolen in 1882.
Although Laramie has no legal right to keep Midge with him, Midge wants to stay, a situation complicated by the fact that Midge becomes the focus of all the factions because she is believed to own the deed to Apache Gap.
Amid all of this turmoil, matters are brought to the point of crisis when Laramie Drake, owner of the Double Deuces Ranch, saves teenage Midge Lawrence from a whipping by her court-appointed guardian, Eben Hazard.
When Face Card is murdered, it is discovered that most of his papers have gone missing.
The strong man in Tucson is Face Card Farrow who has enough secret evidence against the wealthy and powerful to get his own way.
Otherwise they will have to lay about two hundred extra miles of track around the northwest corner of the Verdes.
The Pacific Railroad in "Where Hell\'s Coyotes Howl" wants to build their spur line from Santa Fe to Tucson and they want the right of way through Apache Gap, the only passage through the Tanques Verdes.
The only thing the Joker overlooks in his fiendish plans is that Emmet Pierce is a man with a moral conscience.
The twenty guns of the title describe the gunslingers the Joker hires to enforce his hold on the town.
He begins by winning ownership of the Palace, the largest gambling hall in town.
When this duo arrives in the small ranching town of Benton, the Joker is ready to take it over and claim it for his own.
His traveling companion is Emmet Pierce, a Texan fast with his gun.
He was known only as the Joker, a portly, chuckling man with a bland smile, a poker face, and an amazing ability to make a deck of cards perform any trick he desired.
Description"Town of Twenty Triggers" opens this new Trio of short novels by Les Savage Jr., marking their first appearance in book form
