Dutchman's flat
Subtitle: a western sextet
By: by Louis L'Amour ; edited by Jon Tuska
Contributors: Tuska, Jon; Tuska, Jon
Publisher: ISIS Publishing
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Oxford [England]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 179
ISBN-13: 9780753187449
Subjects: Gold mines and mining; Fiction
Description: Big medicine: Billy Dunbar has discovered some gold and nine Apaches. If they catch sight of him, he's a goner.

Dutchman's Flat: A posse heads out into the desert in pursuit of a squatter who gunned down Johnny Webb.

Keep travelin', rider: When Tack Gentry arrives back at his Uncle Johns' ranch after a year away he learns his uncle is dead.

McQueen of the Tumbling K: Foreman of the Tumbling K ranch, Wade McQueen, finds evidence of a fight on ranch land. Jim Yount or one of his gunmen has shot McQueen, but they should have made sure he was dead.

Trail to Pietown: Dusty Barron's idea of riding into Jarilla to make peace hits a few snags.

Trap of Gold: Wetherton has been three months out of Horsehead before he finds his first color. The gold is located at the head of a fan that lies in a gigantic crack in a granite upthrust that resembles a fantastic ruin. The problem is that the granite upthrust is unstable, and taking out the quartz might bring the whole thing tumbling down.
Table of contents: title: Trap of gold; title: Keep travelin', rider; title: Big medicine; title: Trail to Pie Town; title: McQueen of the Tumbling K; title: Dutchman's Flat.; title: Trap of gold; title: Keep travelin', rider; title: Big medicine; title: Trail to Pie town; title: McQueen of the tumbling k; title: Dutchman's flat.-A collection of stories from the famous Western author.