Last Gunfighter 19: Slaughter

This story was originally included in Great American Westerns 1. Their trek will take them into Indian country, and to protect the train from attack, the wagon master has foolishly taken a young Blackfoot woman hostage. Caleb Doorn is better known by his Blackfoot name, Many Coups.

.This story was originally included in Great American Westerns 1. In thirty years of prospecting, old Jim had never discovered Amber's Mirage—a shining cliff above a spring that ran heavy with gold.

And he's here to gun his old man down.

Barely..

A bushwhacking, a storm-racked sea voyage and an anything-but-friendly reception isn't enough to stop Morgan and his blushing brides.It was a favor to a dead friend: Frank Morgan is shepherding a group of mail-order brides to a brawling Alaska boom town called Skagway.

.In the redwood country of northern California, Frank Morgan, aka the Last Gunfighter, discovers a mutilated corpse.

He's just trying to get to the truth about a cycle of violence that's about to explode... For the Spanish landowners, wealth is measured in cattle on the open range.

Not that the Nevada mine is empty; it's full of silver. But the man who thinks he owns it fair and square is in for a very unpleasant surprise-a ruthless, hard driving Easterner named Dex Brighton shows up with a seemingly valid claim. Town marshal Frank Morgan has his suspicions and sends for some San Francisco legal eagles.

For hard nosed oilmen, a fortune is in the ground - in the form of shining black crude oil.

Now, Morgan realizes that Dex Brighton from back East is straight from Hell-with an army of stone-cold killers waiting in the hills.