Series: If you stay in this broken wagon, girl, the night frost will claim you and that unborn child before moonrise.

Word traveled fast, even in the sprawling, isolated Wyoming Territory. Silas Gable received advance warning from a nervous clerk in South Pass City: Judge O’Rourke [more…]

Silas Gable stood framed in the doorway of Leo’s mountain cabin, a formidable figure against the heavy freeze settling over Crow Ridge. The wind outside [more…]

The silence in the cabin stretched, heavy and tense, broken only by the rhythmic tick of the woodstove and Clara’s soft breathing. Silas Gable stood [more…]

The morning after the confrontation in the cabin, a thin, crisp sun rose over South Pass City, melting the last of the snow from the [more…]

A month later, beneath a crisp December sun, the alkali flats stretched out, stark and quiet. The wind, though cold, no longer carried the bite [more…]