The Vinegar Peak wars by Martin, Hugh, 1929- instant download

The Vinegar Peak wars by Martin, Hugh, 1929- instant download

1 volume ; 19 cm, Saddle tramps Cephas Dannehar and Slim Oskin drifted into the Vinegar Peak country of Arizona Territory, helped an old colleague out of trouble, were taken for hired gunmen and bucked the interest of the Black Eagle copper mine and scheming Nate Sturgis, the self-styled Boss of Vinegar Peak. In a lead-peppered struggle between their horse-ranching friends and Sturgis's toughs, known as the Peace Commission, bullets were soon flying and fires of destruction were lit. All part of the growing pains of a raw western territory, moulding its post-Civil War destiny. Dannehar and Oskin were no angels but throwing their guns in on the side of right they faced a war which could see Vinegar Peak become respectable or its violent citizenry, prodded by grasping ambitions, might make it an outlaw town ruled by thuggery and the lawless gun