Name: The Shopkeeper

Author: James D. Best
Year: 2007
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Western, Historical fiction, Fiction

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9781587369223
1587369222		 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 an impulsive street fight. Dancy believes this barbarian act has closed the episode. He is wrong. He has interfered with Washburn's ambitions, and this is something the mining 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 the former city slicker settle accounts without losing his life in the process?
This book is part of the "Steve Dancy Tales" series. Here are some other books from this series:
"Murder at Thumb Butte"
First published in 2011
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"Leadville"
First published in 2009
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"The Return"
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"Crossing the Animas"
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