Chet Cunningham

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.

 

Chet Cunningham

 Apache Ambush

by

Chet Cunnigham

Published 

by Wolfpack Publishing

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He was half Apache, half white. As a boy, he had seen his Indian mother gunned down by the hated bluecoats during an attack on his village. Now, years later, here he was, Wade Chisholm, scout for the U.S. Cavalry, alone in Apache country, asked to locate the hostiles - his people - then decide if he had the stomach to lead soldiers in the massacre of another village. But "Longknife" knew the Apache had already filled the desolate desert. The Apache death chant. Chisholm was as good as dead!

This was a fast, easy read western with enough action to keep you entertained. 

The story was about Wade Chisholm, half white, half Apache who is a scout for the cavalry. 

Set against the backdrop of the Superstition Mountains, this red-headed scout must now fight on two fronts. Against the people he works for (one in particular) and the Apache who, if they take him alive, will deal him a hand more violent than the bluecoats could ever imagine.