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The Copper Kings (Making of America, Bk 41)
The Copper Kings - Making of America, Bk 41 Author:Lee Davis Willoughby The Great Copper War -- Haystack Butte, Montana Territory, 1888 — Morgan Rice was a poor Texas cowhand, new to the Territory, when he met up with the prospector "Wildcat" Corrigan and his beautiful daughter, Maureen. — Every miner knew that gold was the ore to dig, but Morgan had ideas of his own. When he and Wildcat teamed up with a city-slicker ... more »lawyer named Aaron Green, they hit on a scheme which seemed sure-fire to make them the richest men in the West - a scheme involving copper, a misunderstood mineral just now coming into use because of the inventions of men named Bell and Edison.
But there was trouble in the form of one Norman Lamont, a wealthy eastern magnate hell-bent to wipe out the upstart Thunderbird Copper Company - even if it meant murdering Morgan Rice.
And there was Maureen Corrigan. Rice thought she was all his, but Aaron Green had an eye for the spunky little lady, too, and they soon found themselves fighting -- even as Norman Lamont's secret weapon, a gunslinger named Midnight, came looking for Morgan Rice and Company...« less