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    Legends
    Legends
    Legends
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    Legends

    By Wayne Greenough

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    Some legends live on. Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, Bat Masterson, Billy the Kid, all our legends that will more than likely never die.

    But what happens to the ones that do die? The ones who fought for law and order, fighting for justice there own way and yet nobody seems to remember them? Here is a story about them.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublishereXtasy Books Inc
    Release dateMar 10, 2017
    ISBN9781487410209
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      Legends - Wayne Greenough

      When Western Legends fighting for law and order meet outlaws, anything can and will happen.

      Some legends live on. Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, Bat Masterson, Billy the Kid—all legends that will more than likely never die.

      But what happens to the ones that do die? The ones who fought for law and order, fighting for justice their own way, and yet whom nobody seems to remember? Here is a story about them.

      The unauthorized reproduction or distribution of this copyrighted work is illegal. Criminal copyright infringement, including infringement without monetary gain, is investigated by the FBI and is punishable by up to 5 years in federal prison and a fine of $250,000.

      Please purchase only authorized electronic editions, and do not participate in or encourage the electronic piracy of copyrighted materials. Your support of the author’s rights is appreciated.

      This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

      Legends

      Copyright © 2017 Wayne Greenough

      ISBN: 978-1-4874-1020-9

      Cover art by Angela Waters

      All rights reserved. Except for use in any review, the reproduction or utilization of this work in whole or in part in any form by any electronic, mechanical or other means, now known or hereafter invented, is forbidden without the written permission of the publisher.

      Published by eXtasy Books Inc or

      Devine Destinies, an imprint of eXtasy Books Inc

      Look for us online at:

      www.eXtasybooks.com or www.devinedestinies.com

      Smashwords Edition

      Legends

      By

      Wayne Greenough

      Dedication

      This dedication is to the person who means more to me than anyone else in this world: my wife, June.

      Chapter One

      Dusty Stormalong, wearing his best pair of worn boots, kicked up street dust as he lazily strolled past wooden buildings that his callused hands, hard labor, sweat, and general know-how helped create.

      The small western town originated by being hammered together using bent nails, and sun tortured wood from weather-beaten, falling apart, Indian-and-outlaw-fighting Conestoga Wagons that could not travel another mile. Half of the wagon train’s people still believed the promised land would be found within the next mile. The other half were dead, buried along the trail to nowhere. The new wagon train boss sent Dusty out to search for much needed water, and to shoot any kind of animal he saw to feed starving bellies.

      The afternoon was blistering hot, and luck smiled at the lone, nearly exhausted Dusty Stormalong. He found water, lots of it, flowing lazily along its riverbanks. He ran his horse into the water, took off his gun belt and jumped in fully clothed. He drank nearly a gallon of the best-tasting water he’d ever swallowed. Minutes later, he shot gophers that could be used as meat in stew pots and returned to the wagon train, whooping and shouting when he came into view of the first broken down Conestoga. The people declared Dusty to be a hero after he convinced them to destroy the wagons, tear them apart, and use their wood and nails to start building a town close to the river.

      Work started. Over the months the wagons disappeared, while nearby trees were cut down and sawed into lumber that ambitious humans shaped into a saloon, a dance hall, a stable, a boarding house, a jail, and a few cabins. A year later a telegraph line was established nearby. Hooking up to it in caused much beer and hard liquor to flow, a telegraph office to be slapped into a building, and people shouting, We now have us a town.

      Well, not entirely.

      Afterthoughts came with religion. A small church was built for

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