The shopkeeper :
by Best, James D., frey50
Published by : Center Point Pub., (Thorndike, Me. :) , 2009 Physical details: 319 p. cm. ISBN:9781602855731 (lib. bdg. : alk. paper); 1602855730 (lib. bdg. : alk. paper).In 1879 Steve Dancy sells his New York shop and ventures west to explore and write a journal about his adventures. Though he's not looking for trouble, Dancy's infatuation with another man's wife soon embroils him in a deadly feud with Sean Washburn, a Nevada silver baron. Infuriated by the outrages of two hired thugs, the shopkeeper kills both men in a street fight. Dancy believes the episode is closed - but he's wrong. He has interfered with Washburn's ambitions, and this is something th emining tycoon will not allow. Pinkertons, hired assassins, and aggrieved bystanders escalate the feud until it pulls in all the moneyed interests and power brokers in Nevada. Can a former city slicker settle accounts without losing his life?