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The ShopkeeperJames, D. Best

The Shopkeeper

2007240 pages
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In 1879, Steve Dancy sells his New York shop and ventures west to explore and write a journal about his adventures. Though he's not looking for trouble, Dancy's infatuation with another man's wife soon embroils him in a deadly feud with Sean Washburn, a Nevada silver baron. Infuriated by the outrages of two hired thugs, the shopkeeper kills both men in an impulsive street fight. Dancy believes this barbarian act has closed the episode. He is wrong. He has interfered with Washburn's ambitions, and this is something the mining tycoon will not allow. Pinkerton's hired assassins, and aggrieved…

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  • Paperback · English · 2007
    Wheatmark · 240 pages · 9781587369223
Western storiesHistorical fiction