Age of Monsters by Tim Marquitz
Author:Tim Marquitz
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Outland Entertainment
Published: 2018-12-15T00:00:00+00:00
DEVILâS CAP BRAWL
EDWARD M. ERDELAC
:: A âDead Westâ short story
JOE BLAS WAS SO CALLED because his papist upbringing in Drom, County Tipperary, had given him a knack for devising the most ingenious blasphemies anyone on either side of the Sierras had ever heard.
He blew hot air into the cold red palms of his hands and turned that coarse and inventive tongue against Chow Lan, the agent for the forty coolies under his charge.
âJesus Christâs holey hands anâ feet! What dâyou mean theyâre scared to blast? Weâve blown though every goddamned cliff and mountain since Dutch Flat with no issue. Whatâs different about this one?â
Chow Lanâs job was to act as liaison between the red-in-the-face Irish riding boss and his aforementioned forty countrymen, who made up the spearhead of the work gang Charles Crocker had hired on to get the Central Pacific Railroad into Utah by 1867. He divvied up their paychecks, keeping a customary cut of it for himself, placed orders with the gwailo agent for suitable foodstuffs for their cook, and voiced employee concerns when the situation arose.
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