Gunman from Rawhide: A Western Duo (Five Star Western Series) - Hardcover

Ballard, Todhunter

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9781432825201: Gunman from Rawhide: A Western Duo (Five Star Western Series)

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ISBN 10: 1432825208 ISBN 13: 9781432825201

Publisher: Five Star, 2011

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Ken Gregory in Dead Man s Gold comes on a lynching in Ortman by a mob led by Jed Dawson. Sam Petnell is the victim. Mary Thorn of the Box-T speaks out in opposition to the hanging. Petnell is accused of horse stealing and he is innocent. Gregory takes a hand and he is able to diffuse the mob. Petnell claims he has discovered where on the Box-T Will South buried his cache of gold before heading East, where he subsequently died. Mary Thorn gives him a horse and sends him on his way to the Box-T. It wasn t a prudent thing to do, since Petnell is murdered on the trail by a sharpshooter who also targets Ken Gregory and Mary Thorn as they ride along on the same trail.
Ray Donovan in Gunman from Rawhide isn t really a Donovan. He was adopted as a child by Pete Donovan, a prospector, and only when Pete died was he sent to the great Box D Ranch to be raised by Aunt Kate Donovan, a masterful woman who inherited the ranch. Ray ran away from home as soon as he could and earned himself a considerable reputation as a trouble-shooter on railroad construction crews. In response to a letter from his cousin Marty Donovan about Bert Donovan who has followed belatedly in Ray s path and run away from the Box D, Ray finds Bert in a Denver saloon and accompanies him back to the Box D. Once there he finds Aunt Kate involved in a bitter dispute with what strikes him as a fraudulent railroad construction projected headed up by Wilbur Keats, a gambler and land agent in Dondaro. Aunt Kate thinks Ray is a front man for the railroad, while Keats is convinced that Ray had returned to stop surveying of a right of way across the Box D. Ray intends to get out before becoming more embroiled, but an attempt on his life changes his mind.

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