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Homesteads and Other Burnt Creek Stories: Burnt Creek, False Face, Homesteads
Homesteads and Other Burnt Creek Stories Burnt Creek False Face Homesteads Author:Ernest Haycox "Burnt Creek""The double crosser clipped me and transferred guns!"A murdering thief slips into Dave Budd's store looking for food and cash. He doesn't have long; the sheriff's only minutes behind. Oh, and he's Budd's son?"False Face"They came from every corner of Oregon and from adjoining states, rough people and refined, all eager to share in a... more » new prospect of comfort and prosperity. Yet, the cause of this boom was a mere rumor, an unsubstantiated report that the government was going to dam a river in distant hills and construct major canals to irrigate the desert. It could be a land rush, as had happened in the past, or something worse if the rumor really proved false?"Homesteads"Aaron Bixby was a human coyote who preyed on the weak and unlucky. One day he went too far, took too much and made the wrong enemy?« less