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    Cripple Creek
    Cripple Creek
    Cripple Creek
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    Cripple Creek

    By D R Hann

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    A story from the Middleton saga.
    Daniel is the younger brother of Frank, who after graduating from high school travels out west to be with his brother Frank.
    But is he really ready for the Wild West where a Colt is much better than words?
    Follow Daniel’s journey and his story in the Wild West as each day maybe his last, or will he learn what it takes to survive.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherD R Hann
    Release dateMay 30, 2018
    ISBN9780463211373
    Cripple Creek
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    D R Hann

    Just a story teller, not a Leo Tolstoy. You'll either like my books, or hate them. Remember, keep going forward.

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      Cripple Creek - D R Hann

      Cripple Creek

      The Middleton Saga

      By D R Hann

      PDH Publishing

      Copyrights and Notices

      Copyright © 2018 by D.R. Hann

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the author, me, D. R. Hann.

      Some names, characters, places and or incidents are fictitious and are of the author’s imagination

      Synopsis

      A story from the Middleton saga.

      Daniel is the younger brother of Frank, who after graduating from high school travels out west to be with his brother Frank.

      But is he ready for the Wild West where a Colt is much better than words?

      Follow Daniel’s journey in the Wild West as each day maybe his last, or will he learn what it takes to survive.

      My other books can be found at Smashwords.

      My Younger Years

      My Name is Daniel Middleton, and this is my story.

      The year I was born 1864 the civil war was winding down in the North's favor.

      I was born at the end of one war, and I have witnessed two world wars.

      I would have served but I was too old when the First World War started, it was supposed to be the war that ended all wars, but as we all know it was not.

      Now 1947 and man has just finished another world war; I wonder how many more world wars will it take before it is the war to end all wars.

      I had five other siblings, my older brother Frank, God rests his soul, my older sister, Mary, and may God rest her soul.

      My other older brother James, may God rest his soul, my other older sister Susan and my younger brother William may God rest his soul.

      Frank was much older than me as he was born in 1849, got shot and killed in the city of Baltimore in the year of 1912, some say it was Jack the Ripper who shot and killed Frank.

      Mary died eleven years ago of consumption; she bore nine children all of whom turned out to be what you would want your children to be,

      Judges, doctors, teachers, nurses and a lawyer Willie who seems to be honest.

      James was a drifter moving from town to town until an angry husband shot and killed James six years ago, died in 1941.

      As Frank was the best in a person, I guess you could say James was on the opposite side of the scale.

      Susan married a doctor back east in the city of Camden, New Jersey.

      Susan and Samuel are still living, she is eighty-seven, and Samuel is eighty-nine.

      They have three children, ten grandchildren, three great children and one great, great grandchild.

      We call each other once a month, we always say we will get together but I guess that may not happen; guess I will see her on the other side.

      William was four years younger than me he died at the age of forty-six of that Spanish flu.

      Shortly afterward his wife Margret contacted the flu, and she also died.

      William and Margret had four children.

      After reading my Brother Frank’s letters about the Wild West in 1882, I had it set in my mind that the west was the place to be.

      Belle Fourche

      After I graduated high school, the only son to archive that honor I headed west to meet my brother Frank in Belle Fourche, South Dakota.

      Frank was sheriff and part-time prospector.

      It was a hell of a trip, dusty and dirty, wore the same clothes for three days.

      Being a city folk I felt the need for a hot bath, which Frank would tease me about, he said a cold creek or river should be good enough to bath in and to spend two bits on a hot bath seemed frivolous.

      Belle Fourche was much tamer than those other western towns you would read about, Dodge City, Deadwood, and Tombstone, but still Belle Fourche was pretty wild.

      Being eighteen and fresh out of high school, not even my brother Frank could have protected my innocents completely.

      I connected with a young woman, Pearl De Vere, she was two years older than me, and she was a working woman, in the world’s oldest profession,

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