Ralph Compton Lost Banshee Mine

Informationen zum Autor Ralph Compton stood six foot eight without his boots. He worked as a musician, a radio announcer, a songwriter, and a newspaper columnist. His first novel, The Goodnight Trail , was a finalist for the Western Writers of America Medicine Pipe Bearer Award for best debut novel. He was the USA Today bestselling author of the Trail of the Gunfighter series, the Border Empire series, the Sundown Rider series, and the Trail Drive series, among others. Jackson Lowry is the Western pen name for Robert E. Vardeman, author of numerous novels. Vardeman received the 2017 Western Fictioneers Lifetime Achievement Award. Western titles include Sonora Noose , Great West Detective Agency , and the western trilogy, Punished . He was born in Texas and has lived in the wilds of New Mexico most of his life. Klappentext Two struggling miners may have just found their ticket to fortune-if they can keep it-in this riveting new Ralph Compton Western. England Dan Rutledge and his partner John Cooley have worked their claim for a year and are barely eking out a living. When Cooley shows up with a map of the abandoned Irish Lord Mine he drunkenly bought off a shady cowboy, England Dan is sure it's a complete fraud. After all, no one knows what happened to the most valuable gold mine in the Superstition Mountains after a banshee frightened off the last owner. But when England Dan gets a good look at the map, details start clicking into place. Maybe they have the key to a fortune after all! But soon an infamous bank robber shows up looking for this mysterious map he claims is his. Now England Dan and his partner will have to fight off hostile Indians, miners, and a dangerous felon to find the cache of gold and strike it rich. Leseprobe Chapter One Something more than grinding hunger tied En-gland Dan RutledgeÕs stomach in a tight knot. Hunting had been terrible. Summer this year in the Superstition Mountains had been drier than usual, making the deer and rabbits that bothered to stay in the high country skittish. Most of the forage the animals usually ate was dried and sparse, forcing them to go lower in the mountains. That made every hunt more difficult if he wanted to follow all those possible meals on the hoof. Worse, England Dan hated to leave his partner in their mine alone. It wasnÕt because of any danger, but John Cooley slacked off when he didnÕt have his partner constantly urging him to work harder or even to work at all. En-gland Dan hardly blamed him. The Trafalgar Mine was playing out, and they both knew it. The amount of gold they pulled from the tons of ore they moved decreased monthly. Getting a single ounce for that work amounted to reason for celebration. Mostly there wasnÕt that much and hadnÕt been since last fall. He tramped up the trail toward their mine, not paying attention to where he stepped. A -low--hanging branch knocked off his bowler as he failed to duck in time. Cursing, he put down the two scrawny rabbits he had bagged and picked up the hat. A quick swipe of his forearm brushed off dirt. Or most of it. The hat had seen better days since he bought it in London, and his British Army officerÕs jacket had been patched so many times, it was more repair than original cloth. The epaulets had been ripped off when he was cashiered, and the gold braid had long since turned black from oxidation and filth. His cavalry boots needed polishing, and the gun belt strapped around his waist, carrying a -well--used -Webley--Pryse, showed empty loops where spare ammunition normally rode. He wore a bandolier slung across his left shoulder, but the cartridge loops in it were as vacant as those in his gun belt. Ammo cost money. There wasnÕt anything about him that didnÕt have the Òrode hard, put away wetÓ look. England Dan sank to a rock and worked more on the bowler. His collision with the tree...

Product details

• Authors: Ralph Compton, Jackson Lowry
• Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.07.2020
• EAN: 9780593100677
• ISBN: 978-0-593-10067-7
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 106 mm x 171 mm x 21 mm
• Series: The Sundown Riders Series; Sundown Riders
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature