Golden Gunmen by Louis L'Amour

Author:Louis L'Amour
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 2017-09-16T20:22:17+00:00

* * * * *

Old Billy stayed the night in the wolf hole, lying at its mouth, waiting for dawn. He saw the wolf come back, stare about uneasily, and then go away. When light came, he crawled from the hole.

The burros were cropping grass and they looked at him. He started to pick up a pack saddle, and then dropped it. “I’ll be durned if I will!” he said.

Taking the old Sharps and the extra pan, he walked down to the wash and went to work. He kept a careful eye out, but saw no Apaches. The gold was panning out even better than he had dreamed would be possible. A few more days—suddenly he looked up.

Two Indians stood in plain sight, facing him. The nearest one walked forward and placed something on a rock, and then drew away. Crouched, waiting, Old Billy watched them go. Then he went to the rock. Wrapped in a piece of tanned buckskin was a haunch of venison!

He chuckled suddenly. He was big medicine now. He was a wolf-man. The venison was a peace offering, and he would take it. He knew now he could come and pan as much gold as he liked in Apache country.

A few days later he killed a wolf, skinned it, and then buried the carcass, but from the head he made a cap to fit over the crown of his old felt hat, and, wherever he went, he wore it.

A month later, walking into Fremont behind the switching tails of Jennie and Julie, he met Sally at the gate. She was talking with young Sid Barton.

“Hi,” Sid said, grinning at him. Then he looked quizzically at the wolf-skin cap. “Better not wear that around here! Somebody might take you for a wolf!”

Old Billy chuckled. “I am,” he said. “You’re durned right, I am. Ask them Apaches.”

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.