Sourdoughs, Claim Jumpers Dry Gulchers: Fifty Of The Grittiest Moments In [Paperback]

Sourdoughs, Claim Jumpers & Dry Gulchers: Fifty of the Grittiest Moments in the History of Frontier Prospecting, offers 50 tales of hard-bitten sourdoughs, petty bandits, outright outlaws, guilt-free gunmen, and murderous money-grubbers as they scrabbled to gain the lands, foodstuffs, and fortunes of wide-eyed greenhorns, gullible and trusting tenderfoots, and slow-on-the-draw gold panners.
Matthew P. Mayois a Spur Award- and Peacemaker Award-nominated writer whose novels include the WesternsWinters’ War;Wrong Town;Hot Lead, Cold Heart; andDead Man’s Ranch.His critically acclaimed non-fiction books includeCowboys, Mountain Men & Grizzly Bears;Bootleggers, Lobstermen & Lumberjacks; andSourdoughs, Claim Jumpers & Dry Gulchers(all Globe Pequot Press). He haunts the web at matthewmayo.com.