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Slocum just landed in a town full of troubles. His new boss is selling shares in a questionable diamond mine--and this gets the attention of a lovely lady who wants a share of the diamonds--and of Slocum. And it seems that everyone's putting a higher price on those diamonds than on Slocum's life...
Slocum stops a dirty railroad gang dead in their tracks... The Big Three are running a railroad on stolen money. Slocum's money. Plus one of their bunch has made a widow out of the best looking woman in town. She wants her husband's killer so bad she's sworn to give herself to the man who kills him. For Slocum, putting a bullet in the backshooting polecat would be a pleasure. So would collecting the reward.
"On my return to California, after an absence of many years, my attention was called, for the first time, to the fact that my name had been associated unpleasantly with the great diamond fraud that startled the financial world nearly half a century ago. Plain duty to my family name and reputation compelled me to tell the whole story of that strange incident so far as my knowledge of it extends. I sincerely trust that a candid reading of these pages will satisfy the public that I was only a dupe, along with some of the most distinguished financiers of the last generation. Concerning two of the historians who maligned me, I am without redress. They are dead. The latest author, Mr. John P. Young, repeated the accusation of his predecessors in his history of San Francisco. This gentleman has admitted that he merely copied the story of the earlier works, having no personal knowledge of events at that period, and has handsomely admitted, over his signature, that he unconsciously did me an injustice. To the diamond story I have added, at the request of friends, some of my experiences and reminiscences of California of the early days"--Preface.
Slocum goes up against the biggest, baddest cattle baron in the territory... John Chisum, a ruthless cattleman, is aiming to run off anyone in the way of his new project—blocking the local water supply and forcing everyone to buy their water from him. Slocum is about to remind the cattle king that blood is thicker than water—even if he has to spill some of Chisum's to prove it.
The fantastic story of this ambitious scheme which defrauded many of the country's financial and commercial leaders of the time. Harpending was accused by many of masterminding the scheme. This book is his defense. His version is generally accepted to be truthful, but the great "Diamond Mine Swindle' continues to be a mystery to historians. The 'other stirring events' contain a lot of Western material. Harpending connived to switch California and Nevada (with their rich gold and silver mines) to the side of the Confederacy during the Civil War. Harpending claims to tell the "whole truth" about his part in a diamond swindle as well as other questionable doings in early California. One of the West's more notable entrepreneurial rogues, Harpending conceived and executed his notorious scheme during the early 1870's, selling shares in a "salted" diamond mine in a cleverly conceived pyramid operation which netted his original sponsors $600,000 on an initial investment of only $35,000 while duping scores of other fortune seekers.
Slocum's got a job driving steer up north—and a hunter into the ground... Driving steer up to bone-cold Nebraska, Slocum runs into a hide-stealin', Sioux-cheatin' buffalo hunter. But this lowlife is in for a surprise. If it's hide he wants, Slocum's glad to give it to him, right off the hunter's own back.
Slocum's looking for a few good men—to take care of a few gone bad... When it comes to justice, Slocum doesn't need proof. He's rounding up a posse of gunslingers to send a murderer and his heel dogs to thier knees.
Slocum gets distracted by a pretty little flower—who comes with thorns... Slocum has his eye on the dangerous Rose Miller. Besides being a real American beauty, Rose is rumored to be the mistress of a notorious train robber. But the minute Slocum gets a taste of this Texas temptress, he's got to decide whether lying in this bed of roses is worth a few scratches.
A yellow-bellied outlaw has Slocum gunning for revenge! After an outlaw sends a bullet into Slocum's back, the fastest gun in the West is ready to deliver up some justice to the local miners and get some of his own in the process.
Slocum meets a woman who's rich, royal, and rounding up trouble... A European baroness needs Slocum to find a stash of hidden missionary gold. But this blue blood has Slocum by the family jewels, and it'll take a gun and a prayer to get rich and stay alive.