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    Die Hard: Wild West Story: Wild West Series
    Die Hard: Wild West Story: Wild West Series
    Die Hard: Wild West Story: Wild West Series
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    Die Hard: Wild West Story: Wild West Series

    By Pat Garrett Jr

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    You can push a nester around in town, but when it comes to taking his land—come shooting!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWildwest Press Co
    Release dateDec 12, 2014
    ISBN9781502203380
    Die Hard: Wild West Story: Wild West Series

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      Die Hard - Pat Garrett Jr

      FROM the outside—from across his broad wheat fields—Jim Cavanaugh’s house looked dark and empty. A lonely house, it seemed, on the Texas plains near a corral and a cluster of out-buildings. Above it, fat stars glowed in the black velvet of the night sky, but, from the windows of the house, not one shred of light could be seen.

      Yet there were twenty-five men crowded into Jim Cavanaugh’s living room waiting for the arrival of the most deadly killer west of the Mississippi.

      It was hot and stuffy in the room. With the windows blanketed, the air had turned flat and stale. Yet the men were not restless. They sat quiet as though awed by the audacity of the thing they had done. There was Sam Crane, Tom Tellero, Lew Bailey, Vince Lee, and twenty-one others, all bound together in a common cause, in a mutual purpose—that of holding their homes and their land against a force which would drive them off the plains.

      They were grim-faced, and theirs was the mood of men who would kill in order to survive. They were fighting a last ditch fight. This was war and their mood was one of morose resentment.

      Yet they were instinctively men of peace and the cloak of violence fitted them awkwardly. They did not wear it with the nonchalance of true fighting men.

      There was desultory talk in low tones; a conversation started only to die, then sprang alive in another part of the room.

      It’s been most four hours now, Crane said, nervously. Think he’ll come?

      Crane asked the question of no one in particular. Cavanaugh answered by repeating what everyone present already knew.

      "This fellow I contacted in San Antone said he could get in touch with Cal Langtry—said he knew where Cal was hiding out. He went to see Cal and come back with the message that Cal would do the job for five thousand dollars. You—you all know how it went. I give him half, or rather I sent it to him, and he’ll collect the rest when he comes here and finishes the job—when he

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