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    Golden Vengeance
    Golden Vengeance
    Golden Vengeance
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    Golden Vengeance

    By Terry Compton

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    Lucky Dawson knew that he should have just kept on riding. How could a little conversation, a meal and a card game lead to a hanging. His hanging to be exact. In 1875, Montanans didn't like card cheats but he wasn't one. He was just, well, lucky. The other players didn't think so and that started the ordeal.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTerry Compton
    Release dateNov 18, 2011
    ISBN9781465993762
    Golden Vengeance
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    Terry Compton

    Terry Compton has raced stock cars, rode horses across the Scapegoat Wilderness, fished and hunted most of his adult life while working at several different jobs. He is an Air Force veteran and served in the Air National Guard for several years. He is currently retired from being the owner, chief welder and installer for an ornamental iron business where he has made several award winning metal creations and is now turning this creativity to writing.Terry loves to read science fiction, westerns and mystery stories. Some of his favorite authors are Clive Cussler, Robert Ludlum, Tom Clancy, Andre Norton, Poul Anderson, Robert Heinlein, Louie L'Amour, Zane Grey and Anne McCaffery. He is currently learning about 'indie' authors who are publishing e-books.Terry currently lives in Montana with his wife and a dog who thinks she is a short furry people.

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      Golden Vengeance - Terry Compton

      Golden Vengeance

      Terry Compton

      Published by Terry Compton at Smashwords.com

      Copyright 2011 Terry Compton

      Images curtesy of Nylakatara2013 | Antonio Gravante | Dreamstime.com

      Cover by Terry Compton

      Lucky Dawson knew that he should have kept riding. How could a little conversation, a meal and a card game lead to a hanging. His hanging to be exact. In 1875, Montanans didn't like card cheats but he wasn't one. He was just, well, lucky. The other players didn't think so and that started the ordeal.

      Smashwords Version

      This is a work of fiction. All characters or incidents are a figment of the author's imagination and any resemblance to any incident or any person living or dead is purely coincidental.

      Lucky Dawson didn't feel so lucky. Here he was in the bottom of a hole with five prospectors watching him dig. If only he'd just kept riding like he knew he should have. It was the fall of 1875 in Montana and the air was already getting very crisp in the morning. The yellow larch and aspens were pretty but they were a big sign shouting that the mountains around here would soon be white. He should have just kept riding. How was he to know that stopping for lunch with these prospectors was going to cause such problems?

      Just yesterday -- no, day before yesterday -- he had been on his way to somewhere where he could spend the winter in a warm saloon. No tents or gold camps this winter. He had a nice nest egg stashed in the secret hiding spot in the tree of the pack saddle. He had plenty of food on the pack saddle and life had looked good. Then he'd stopped in the middle of the day for lunch here at Bear Gulch. The five prospectors only wanted to hear about the gold camp at Alder Gulch and if anyone was finding any new strikes. By the time he was through telling what he knew and answering questions, it was supper time. Then it was too late to move on that night.

      After he had eaten a good supper of elk stew, Three Fingers Bill Williams had come up with a deck of cards. The five had found a little gold dust in their placer mine and wanted some entertainment for the evening. Since he was a gambler by trade, Lucky had been glad to join in. They had played most of the night because Lucky didn't want to clean the prospectors out right away. He got the nickname Lucky because he won a lot, but it wasn't by cheating. He just knew the odds and could read people. Most people's expressions gave them away. They would smile or their eyes would widen just a little bit if they had a good hand or their eyes would narrow or they would tap their fingers when they had nothing. Knowing how to read people had won Lucky more pots than he could count. Other professional gamblers were harder to read but they all had their little signs.

      Lucky had won a few little pots and then he let Bull Thurston win. Bull roared, Ha, ha, my lucks changed now. I'll have all the gold dust in this here camp before long.

      Three Fingers Bill didn't like that too much. He said, Bull, I wouldn't count your chickens before they're hatched. Some of the rest of us might get lucky and clean you out.

      Ha, ha, ha that's funny. You know that I'm the best poker player in these parts. Just you wait.

      The next hand seemed to bear out Three Fingers' prophesy. Slim Tatum won that pot and Bull didn't like it one little bit. He glowered at the other players for the next two hands. A couple of hands later, the pot was up to about $50 and Bull thought he had it. He threw down his hand with three aces and reached

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