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    The Laramie Lawmen
    The Laramie Lawmen
    The Laramie Lawmen
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    The Laramie Lawmen

    By Burr Cook

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    In this novelette sequel to "Badlands Bart" Buck and Bart form a posse to track down a wild gang that killed most of the Riley family. The youngest posse man, James Riley, at age 16 shoots one of the gang members in Denver. The outlaw gang is then tracked to Salt Lake where they met their end. The lawmen return to Laramie and find more of the gang to deal with.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBurr Cook
    Release dateFeb 14, 2015
    ISBN9781311062697
    The Laramie Lawmen
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    Burr Cook

    Burr lives in Syracuse, New York, has 4 children, several grandchildren and says that Great grandchildren are arriving at an alarming rate. Burr is a history buff and works hard on his family's genealogy and has a web site at www.burrcook.com which is partially biographical. He may be contacted through this site. He has traveled extensively throughout the US, Europe and Asia by air, rail and highway. Burr has enjoyed a 50 year career in information technology, has owned a worldwide seminar business and a company called “Cyburrsource” providing the public with internet connections. He is now semi retired and enjoys a life as a freelance writer of action/adventure/romance stories primarily in a historical western setting.

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      The Laramie Lawmen - Burr Cook

      The Laramie Lawmen

      Copyright 2015 Burr Cook

      Published by Burr Cook at Smashwords

      Second Edition

      Smashwords Edition License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your enjoyment only, then please return to Smashwords.com or your favorite retailer and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Table of Contents

      Chapter 1 Checking on the Riley Family

      Chapter 2 Disaster Discovered

      Chapter 3 The Rockies

      Chapter 4 Denver City

      Chapter 5 The Westward Trail

      Chapter 6 The Mormons

      Chapter 7 Home Again

      Chapter 8 Gunfight in Laramie City

      About The Author

      Books by Burr Cook

      Chapter 1 Checking on the Riley Family

      Spring time had come to Laramie, Wyoming Territory; and here and there some folks had coaxed some flowers to grow. Ranchers were moving cattle around in search of new grass. The cattle had grown thin over the winter. It was not unusual to see cattle driven down the main street in Laramie. You could hear the cowboys whoop and holler at the steers to keep them moving.

      Buck Benson, now a Marshal of Laramie City, sat at his desk in an office in Laramie that he shares with his deputy Marshal Charlie (Bart) Burton. Both Buck and Bart had moved their families into Laramie, giving up ranching to become full time lawmen. Charlie, nick named Bart, is the youngest deputy Marshal in the whole of United States. They thought there would be trouble on that otherwise pleasant late morning when a gang of fifteen riders came through town stopping just long enough to water their horses and drink a glass of whiskey at the Laramie Hotel. They rode in and were gone within about twenty minutes before continuing east toward Cheyenne.

      Buck had recently received a notice about the gang’s activities so he looked around his desk among the many unsorted papers until he found it. According to the notice the gang was made up of a very wild bunch. Four of them were Indians and another three were half breeds. They were a real wild bunch and were wanted for several robberies and killings in the Wyoming Territory as well as territories to the west. He mentioned the notice to Charlie and gave thanks that the bunch had moved on so quickly. Otherwise they would have had to make an arrest. A posse would have been needed in order to arrest the entire gang.

      They decided that it would be wise to wire the authorities in Cheyenne. They would be better equipped to deal with such a wild gang especially if they knew it was on the way.

      Bart was deep in thought a short time after Buck had made him aware of the gang’s reputation for violence. You know Buck, Bart drawled. That bunch of trash had to have come through the pass. That means that they passed by the Riley homestead. The Riley family with the exception of Jack Hansom’s wife Beth

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