By Louis L'Amour
For hundreds of thousands of years the lonely canyon knew in simple terms wind and rain, wild animals, and an occasional local hunter. Then a trapper came upon a bit of gold, and every little thing replaced overnight.
In six days a city known as Confusion seemed . . . and at the 7th it can disappear, fed on by way of the flames of lawlessness and violence. On one part are those that comprehend in basic terms brute strength. at the different are males who wish legislations and order yet are able to use a noose to accomplish their ends. among them stand Matt Coburn and Dick Felton: one a hardened realist, the opposite an idealist attempting to dig a fortune from the muddy hillside. Outnumbered and outgunned, Felton and Coburn can’t manage to pay for to be outmaneuvered. For because the not likely allies confront corruption, betrayal, and homicide in an try to tame a city the place the invention of gold can suggest both the fortune of a life-time or a sentence of demise, they notice that any flow will be their final.
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Don’t go,” he said. ” Felton protested. “That was a gun battle. ” Felton hesitated, and Zeller added his comment. ” There were no more shots. Somebody was talking loudly in the streets, and after a few minutes they heard footsteps on the trail. Cohan stepped back inside and picked up Zeller’s shotgun and their rifles and passed them out. They could see several men were coming. One of them, judging by size alone, must be Big Thompson. ” “You ain’t hospitable, Mr. ” Thompson’s voice was teasing, and it angered Felton to think the man thought so little of him.
They were cautious men who had learned the hard way. At daybreak the next day they worked up the gully, every pan showing good color. Shortly before noon Felton suggested a break, and he seated himself on a slab of rock in the shade of a gnarled and ancient cedar. He propped his feet against a rock and lit his pipe. He smoked the pipe through, scanning the hills for signs of movement. Turning his head, he could look due west to the peak with the glacier. And then he leaned over to knock out his pipe, and there it was.
Within the hour Buckwalter had emptied his first barrel and sold it for thirty dollars to a gambler with a three-card monte game. Another man bought a lot, set up a tent, hung out his sign, and began selling miner’s supplies. “That’s Jim Gage,” Cohan said. “He never misses a boom town, he does a land-office business, then moves on. He’s a good judge of booms, and when he sells out you know you’re through. ” Zeller asked. “Instinct, I guess. ” By nightfall three hundred men were camping or building along the slope.