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"Pike's Peak or Bust" is the rallying cry for the Colorado gold rush -and veteran prospector Caleb Blackwell is busted. Busted, and growing disenchanted with the mining business. Then he wanders into a town that is tightly controlled by a gang of vicious thugs -and sees a new option...
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
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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's Star - Troy D. Smith
BLACKWELL’S STAR
By Troy D. Smith
(The Blackwell Series)
SMASHWORDS EDITION
*****
PUBLISHED BY:
Wolf Pass Books
BLACKWELL’S STAR
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’S STAR
Northwestern Kansas Territory (Colorado), 1860
It was drizzling rain on the day Caleb Blackwell first rode into the town of Brier. If it could be called a town—it was mostly a collection of hastily, crudely constructed buildings, lean-to’s, and rough tents lining the single muddy street. The town had not existed six months prior, when Blackwell
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