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    Blackwell the Highwayman
    Blackwell the Highwayman
    Blackwell the Highwayman
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    Blackwell the Highwayman

    By Troy D. Smith

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    Good-natured bandit Duke Blackwell meets a beautiful Mexican damsel-in-distress who informs him that he has become a local legend for preying on corrupt merchants. And she desperately needs the help of the famous highwayman, for a noble quest--but Blackwell has a feeling all is not as it seems...

    Read the whole Blackwell series! "Blackwell's Run" was nominated for the 2011 Peacemaker Award for best western short story!

    •The Blackwell Claim
    •Blackwell the Highwayman
    •Blackwell Unchained
    •Blackwell's Star
    •Blackwell's Stand
    •The Divided Prey
    •Blackwell's Run
    •The Windigo
    •The Blackwell Raid

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCane Hollow Press
    Release dateAug 16, 2012
    ISBN9781476106519
    Blackwell the Highwayman
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    Troy D. Smith

    Born in the Upper Cumberland region of Tennessee, Mr. Smith has loved books even before he could read them. In 1995 his first short story was accepted by Louis L'Amour Western Magazine, and he has been published in magazines since then on a fairly regular basis. Author of numerous award winning short stories and novels, Troy is currently a Doctoral candidate in the History Department at the University of Illinois. He says, "I don't write about things that happen to people—I write about people that things happen to."

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      Blackwell the Highwayman - Troy D. Smith

      BLACKWELL THE HIGHWAYMAN

      By Troy D. Smith

      (The Blackwell Series)

      SMASHWORDS EDITION

      *****

      PUBLISHED BY:

      Wolf Pass Books

      BLACKWELL THE HIGHWAYMAN

      Copyright © 2012 by Troy D. Smith

      This book is a work of fiction and any resemblance to persons, living or dead, or places, events or locales is purely coincidental. The characters are productions of the author’s imagination and used fictitiously.

      With appreciation to Rebecca J. Vickery

      *****

      AUTHOR’S NOTE:

      This story is an installment of THE BLACKWELL SERIES. The series will follow one family’s experience in the American West, and will be comprised of standard-length (around 5,000 words) short stories. Only one installment, BLACKWELL’S STAND, is significantly shorter than that.

      The tales are not told in any particular chronological order, and in fact jump around in time from installment to installment (similar to Robert E. Howard’s Conan saga, if you are familiar with that.) A list of available stories can be found at the end of this ebook, and more info about the world of the Blackwells is online at http://www.troyduanesmith.com/Blackwell.html

      One story, BLACKWELL’S RUN, was a finalist for the 2011 Peacemaker Award for Western Fiction.

      *****

      BLACKWELL THE HIGHWAYMAN

      California, 1855

      I can’t wait to see their faces, Lucius Crane said. I don’t never get tired a’ seein’ them Fancy Dans’ faces. He giggled so hard that his considerable paunch rolled from side to side; his horse was frightened, either from the noise or by the sudden shift in weight, and it almost threw Lucius down into the gorge the two men were watching. Lucius struggled with the reins.

      Dadgum gelding, he said, between curses. Most skittish animal I’ve ever owned.

      If’n I was ever gelded, Duke Blackwell said, I reckon I’d be pretty dern skittish from then on, myself.

      Sometimes you say the ignorentest things, Lucius said. Why don’t you try thinkin’ like a bandit, for a change? You know—say dangerous stuff.

      Duke shook his head. "Once you get to talkin’, Lucius, I don’t reckon I could say anything dangerous enough to match

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