Jingo : a western story / Max Brand.
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TextPublisher: Thorndike, Maine : Center Point Large Print, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: Center Point Large Print editionDescription: 222 pages (large type) ; 23 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1628994436
- 1628994487
- 9781628994438
- 9781628994483
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Main Library | Large Print Fiction | WESTERN Brand Max | Available | 33111007955806 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
On the day that Jingo rode into Tower Creek, the town was busy celebrating its twentieth anniversary. At the moment the big event was a high stakes poker game in Joe Slade's saloon with Wally Rankin holding most of the chips. That is, until Jingo joined the game. It didn't take long for Jingo to figure out that Rankin was cheating and a couple of well-placed bullets revealed it to the others in the room.
First appeared in Street & Smith's Western Story Magazine, September 9, 1933.
On the day that Jingo rode into Tower Creek, the town was busy celebrating its twentieth anniversary. At the moment the big event was a high stakes poker game in Joe Slade's saloon with Wally Rankin holding most of the chips. That is, until Jingo joined the game. It didn't take long for Jingo to figure out that Rankin was cheating, and a couple of well-placed bullets revealed it to the others in the room. The sheriff warns Jingo to head out of Tower Creek at once because Wally has an older brother, Jake, who is sure to want to get even on Wally's behalf. Instead Jingo decides to confront Jake and get it over with as soon as possible. On his way, he meets a giant of a man who goes by the name The Parson and has a unique ability to smell trouble a mile away. The two form an uneasy partnership, which will come in handy when Jingo decides he's going to court Eugenia Tyrrel, the prettiest girl in the district. Although Eugenia has never met a man she liked so well, her father, Judge Tyrrel, has determined to do whatever it takes to keep Jingo away. Existing suitor Wheeler Bent is determined to remove any competition for Eugenia's attention. And then there's Jake Rankin...