A master storyteller in the tradition of Louis L'Amour presents his latest action-packed, Western adventure. When gold fever struck Virginia City, Montana, the miners fell victim to a ruthless gang who went after any man shipping his poke or even carrying gold dust. But when the stealing varmints marked him for a dead man, Jeff Pierce was ready for a showdown.
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A master storyteller in the tradition of Louis L'Amour presents his latest action-packed, Western adventure. When gold fever struck Virginia City, Montana, the miners fell victim to a ruthless gang who went after any man shipping his poke or even carrying gold dust. But when the stealing varmints marked him for a dead man, Jeff Pierce was ready for a showdown.
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Good in Fair jacket. Book. 12mo-over 6¾-7¾" tall. The tanned pages have a very few small scattered soil spots. There is a name label on the front end paper. The dust jacket has soiling, water marks, edge tears, is taped on the inside of the spine ends and is darkened on the spine area. 303 pages.
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Good in Good jacket. Stated first edition. Hardbound book in good condition. Normal soil and light age toning to edges of text block. Pages are very clean and securely bound. Red cloth boards with black line illustration on front and black lettering. Boards show normal shelfwear to edges and to either end of spine. Dust jacket in mylar shows overall wear, light agetoning, and small chipping to edges and corners.
Based on the true story of Henry Plummer, a sheriff who ran the outlaw empire in the country, Alder Gulch is authentic from one end the other. Jeff Pierce is on the run from his past when he meets Diana Castle who asks him to accompany her to Virginia City, and the action just jumps from that moment on. When Ernest Haycox was contemplating the writing of this book he consulted anyone he could who might possibly know anything about the Alder Gulch, Montana rush, and luckily he found a man who could describe in vivid detail every street, every business, every activity, the stage routes into the area and where a road agent might attack, whatever went on in Virginia City. Haycox also asked him how a respectable and single young woman might have made it in 1863, and the man wasn't sure, yet perhaps as a waitress, or a seamstress, or a household servant--from On A Silver Desert, a biography of Ernest Haycox. In Alder Gulch Diana Castle opens a restaurant in a tent. Alder Gulch is a solid novel with solid historical background to be the underlying story line; but the characters Haycox creates to fill the action are just as solid and believable. You will become engrossed in each of their lives as they struggle to make it--just as each of us struggle in this mundane world of ours today. Highly entertaining, historically informative, a plain old good read I think you will like.
