Living By the Gun

By Steven A. Gentry

One morning the local express office is robbed of more than four thousand dollars in gold bullion and its agent killed in cold blood. Soon the perpetrators learn that they have picked the wrong town for shortly thereafter Sheriff Tate sets out upon their trail and he means business. Not all crimes in the Old West were committed by roving bands of outlaws. In fact some were perpetrated by locals who knew the habits of the townspeople and law enforcement. Those crimes often proved the more difficult to solve.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Steven A. Gentry
• Release date: Jan 25, 2019
• ISBN: 9780463443682

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Living By the Gun

Story@ copyright by Steven A. Gentry

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The following text is dedicated to James A. Stevens, the man who taught me how to shoot.

Living By the Gun

Now damnit Sheriff, the express office has been stuck up, the agent shot, and over four thousand dollars in gold bullion has been stolen. Now what the hell is it going to take for you to decide to get up a posse?

"If I need to get up a posse I will let you know Mr. Chism. The last time I let you bunch of know nothing help me out; two of you know nothings ended up shooting each other. We was plum lucky that no one got killed. When all is said and done we didn’t catch those cattle rustlers. In fact the Sheriff of Dead Springs and his folks ended up doing it. That Sheriff over there is still giving me hell about that every time I see him. No