The Laramie Lawmen
By Burr Cook
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In this novelette sequel to "Badlands Bart" Buck and Bart form a posse to track down a wild gang that killed most of the Riley family. The youngest posse man, James Riley, at age 16 shoots one of the gang members in Denver. The outlaw gang is then tracked to Salt Lake where they met their end. The lawmen return to Laramie and find more of the gang to deal with.
Burr Cook
Burr lives in Syracuse, New York, has 4 children, several grandchildren and says that Great grandchildren are arriving at an alarming rate. Burr is a history buff and works hard on his family's genealogy and has a web site at www.burrcook.com which is partially biographical. He may be contacted through this site. He has traveled extensively throughout the US, Europe and Asia by air, rail and highway. Burr has enjoyed a 50 year career in information technology, has owned a worldwide seminar business and a company called “Cyburrsource” providing the public with internet connections. He is now semi retired and enjoys a life as a freelance writer of action/adventure/romance stories primarily in a historical western setting.
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The Laramie Lawmen - Burr Cook
The Laramie Lawmen
Copyright 2015 Burr Cook
Published by Burr Cook at Smashwords
Second Edition
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Checking on the Riley Family
Chapter 2 Disaster Discovered
Chapter 3 The Rockies
Chapter 4 Denver City
Chapter 5 The Westward Trail
Chapter 6 The Mormons
Chapter 7 Home Again
Chapter 8 Gunfight in Laramie City
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Chapter 1 Checking on the Riley Family
Spring time had come to Laramie, Wyoming Territory; and here and there some folks had coaxed some flowers to grow. Ranchers were moving cattle around in search of new grass. The cattle had grown thin over the winter. It was not unusual to see cattle driven down the main street in Laramie. You could hear the cowboys whoop and holler at the steers to keep them moving.
Buck Benson, now a Marshal of Laramie City, sat at his desk in an office in Laramie that he shares with his deputy Marshal Charlie (Bart) Burton. Both Buck and Bart had moved their families into Laramie, giving up ranching to become full time lawmen. Charlie, nick named Bart, is the youngest deputy Marshal in the whole of United States. They thought there would be trouble on that otherwise pleasant late morning when a gang of fifteen riders came through town stopping just long enough to water their horses and drink a glass of whiskey at the Laramie Hotel. They rode in and were gone within about twenty minutes before continuing east toward Cheyenne.
Buck had recently received a notice about the gang’s activities so he looked around his desk among the many unsorted papers until he found it. According to the notice the gang was made up of a very wild bunch. Four of them were Indians and another three were half breeds. They were a real wild bunch and were wanted for several robberies and killings in the Wyoming Territory as well as territories to the west. He mentioned the notice to Charlie and gave thanks that the bunch had moved on so quickly. Otherwise they would have had to make an arrest. A posse would have been needed in order to arrest the entire gang.
They decided that it would be wise to wire the authorities in Cheyenne. They would be better equipped to deal with such a wild gang especially if they knew it was on the way.
Bart was deep in thought a short time after Buck had made him aware of the gang’s reputation for violence. You know Buck,
Bart drawled. That bunch of trash had to have come through the pass. That means that they passed by the Riley homestead.
The Riley family with the exception of Jack Hansom’s wife Beth