Alone in the middle of a wood-fenced corral, wrists cuffed with two feet of rusty chain, Adam Schreck struggled to stay on his feet. He remembered being captured in the outlaw town by Gordon Trask’s men, worked over and shoved through the gate. “Bounty hunter,” said a drunken voice behind him. Schreck flailed for the […]
Free Western Story: Hester’s Vanity
In Atlas Sam’s tent saloon outside Camp Stambaugh, Herman told his friends about the wife. “I swear it happened almost overnight, her puttin’ up these picture frames all over the place—over the sink, over the fireplace, two or three on the bedroom wall.” Herman never saw so many picture frames in his life, and he […]
