The Two-Gun Carpenter

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.

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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.

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