Gold Wagon

Jim Steel #1

by 

Jess Cody (Chet Cunningham)

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First published July 1986

GOLD! A freight wagon load. It doesn't take a lot of gold to make a ton, and it can be fairly well hidden under bacon, beans and sacks of flour. But not when the hills are full of owlhoots and banditos who know it's coming. Jim Steel, even with a shotgun, a rifle, and a six-gun on his hip is no match for a dozen hard men...or is he?

Overall, the story was pretty good. Jim Steele was after a king's ransom in gold, along with every badman in the territory. Red Paulson and his gang of killers wanted it too. Paulson would stop at nothing to get it. While Steel watched, he and his men massacred an army patrol for an empty wagon. One of the decoys that the army had sent out.

All Steel wanted was the gold, what he got was something else entirely--a deputy sheriff's badge to help out a friend in Bisbee, Arizona. But that didn't stop him looking for the gold wagon  

By the time we get to the end of the story you start to wonder what Steel is going to do with the gold. 

Then comes the twist, one that will break Steel's heart.