The Two-Gun Carpenter
(2018)(The first book in the Animas Forks Western series)
A novel by Robert Peecher
A flash in the pan heralds the rush of prospectors.
Hot on their heels are strumpets and saloon keepers.
They're followed close by cutthroats and gun throwers, gamblers and shop owners.
Gold in the high San Juan Mountains calls together a cast of characters to Animas Forks, the biggest town west of the Mississippi (at 11,000 feet).
In the 1870s, with the signing of the treaty with the Utes, the gold and silver fields of Colorado Territory open to prospectors looking to strike their fortunes.
With them come all the derelicts of society that every boomtown mining camp will attract: any person willing to sink low enough to fleece the prospectors of what little wealth they can dig out of the rock or pan out of the river.
There's Judge Spivey, the miner's court judge who is the law of the camp; Colonel Wall Brandt, the saloon owner whose only concern is whether he is bilking the prospectors of their earnings; Albert Hutchinson, the newspaperman who has no newspaper, and Bell Rogers, the tomboy gunslinger who's as tough as any man in the camp and willing outdrink them all.
In 'The Two Gun Carpenter,' the first book of the Animas Forks Westerns, a lawman fleeing a St. Joseph lynch party finds his way to Three Forks of the Animas, a mining camp on the verge of flourishing.
There he tries to settle himself, working as a carpenter with his partner Jimmy Langdale.
But when Jimmy sparks on one of the strumpets working in a saloon, Barton may find he's hung up his guns too soon.
If you love Westerns with six-guns and whiskey shots, whores and outlaw ruffians, where you can't always tell the good guys by the color of their hats, then come along with us to Animas Forks, and plan to stay a spell.
But pack your shooting irons, and get your cabin squared before the first snow, because the only thing as cold as the winters is the nerve of the back-shooters.
Click the "buy" button now to stake your claim in Animas Forks!
Genre: Western
Hot on their heels are strumpets and saloon keepers.
They're followed close by cutthroats and gun throwers, gamblers and shop owners.
Gold in the high San Juan Mountains calls together a cast of characters to Animas Forks, the biggest town west of the Mississippi (at 11,000 feet).
In the 1870s, with the signing of the treaty with the Utes, the gold and silver fields of Colorado Territory open to prospectors looking to strike their fortunes.
With them come all the derelicts of society that every boomtown mining camp will attract: any person willing to sink low enough to fleece the prospectors of what little wealth they can dig out of the rock or pan out of the river.
There's Judge Spivey, the miner's court judge who is the law of the camp; Colonel Wall Brandt, the saloon owner whose only concern is whether he is bilking the prospectors of their earnings; Albert Hutchinson, the newspaperman who has no newspaper, and Bell Rogers, the tomboy gunslinger who's as tough as any man in the camp and willing outdrink them all.
In 'The Two Gun Carpenter,' the first book of the Animas Forks Westerns, a lawman fleeing a St. Joseph lynch party finds his way to Three Forks of the Animas, a mining camp on the verge of flourishing.
There he tries to settle himself, working as a carpenter with his partner Jimmy Langdale.
But when Jimmy sparks on one of the strumpets working in a saloon, Barton may find he's hung up his guns too soon.
If you love Westerns with six-guns and whiskey shots, whores and outlaw ruffians, where you can't always tell the good guys by the color of their hats, then come along with us to Animas Forks, and plan to stay a spell.
But pack your shooting irons, and get your cabin squared before the first snow, because the only thing as cold as the winters is the nerve of the back-shooters.
Click the "buy" button now to stake your claim in Animas Forks!
Genre: Western
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