The Vinegar Peak wars
By: Hugh Martin
Series: A black horse western; Black horse western
Publisher: Robert Hale; The Crowood Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780709093695
Subjects: Gunfights; Fiction
Description: Saddle tramps Cephas Dannehar and Slim Oskin drifted into the Vinegar Peak country of Arizona Territory, helped an old colleague out of trouble, were taken for hired gunmen and bucked the interest of the Black Eagle copper mine and scheming Nate Sturgis, the self-styled Boss of Vinegar Peak. In a lead-peppered struggle between their horse-ranching friends and Sturgis's toughs, known as the Peace Commission, bullets were soon flying and fires of destruction were lit. All part of the growing pains of a raw western territory, moulding its post-Civil War destiny. Dannehar and Oskin were no angels but throwing their guns in on the side of right they faced a war which could see Vinegar Peak become respectable or its violent citizenry, prodded by grasping ambitions, might make it an outlaw town ruled by thuggery and the lawless gun.