Hanging Woman Creek - Louis L'Amour

Trouble on Hanging Woman

I'm Pronto Pike, Me, I've known plenty trouble, but I never saw none like that winter on Hanging Woman Creek.

Me and my partner, Eddie Holt, as good a man with a rifle as you could ask for, was making things right hard for the rustlers lifting Bar J cattle.

Then Ann Farley came to stay with her brother, and Roman Bohlen and his vigilantes cut down on them. Eddie and me knew we had real trouble then, 'cause men who will shoot at a woman will do anything.

So we taken our guns, and we got Ann and Farley, and we started for the town across the mountains. Bohlen and his gunslingers picked up our trail, and I sent the others on ahead and turned to stand them off...