Shotgun gold

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Shotgun gold

by W. C. (Wilbur C.) Tuttle

EN·~4 hours·9 chapters

Chapters

9 total
1

Part 1

31:43
2

Part 2

31:29
3

Part 3

31:45
4

Part 4

31:38
5

Part 5

31:38
6

Part 6

31:45
7

Part 7

31:40
8

Part 8

31:34
9

Part 9

5:22

Description

In the dusty town of Turquoise, the resignation of the long‑standing sheriff leaves a power vacuum that falls on his reluctant deputy, Roaring Rigby. A wiry, hard‑eyed lawman with a reputation for stubbornness, Rigby must decide whether to step into the badge or walk away. He meets with the town’s weary judge, a man whose love of liquor has clouded his judgments but whose heart still longs for a cleaner community.

The two men argue over the town’s lingering vice district, a remnant of a wild mining boom that still draws troublemakers and gamblers. As Rigby grapples with the judge’s earnest yet flawed reform plans, he discovers that enforcing the old sheriff’s gun‑carrying ordinance could be his only chance to restore order. With his own skin on the line, he must weigh personal survival against the fragile hope of a town yearning for respectability.

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Language

en

Duration

~4 hours (248K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Original publisher

New York, NY: The Butterick Publishing Company, 1927.

Credits

Roger Frank and Sue Clark (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Release date

2023-08-10

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

About the author

W. C. (Wilbur C.) Tuttle

W. C. (Wilbur C.) Tuttle

1883–1969

A prolific Western storyteller, this Montana-born writer turned ranch life, frontier humor, and mystery into more than a thousand magazine stories and many novels. He is especially remembered for the adventures of Hashknife Hartley and Sleepy Stevens, two cowboy detectives with a loyal following.

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