Thomson, Thomas Barclay,  1887-1978 <br/><br/>
Mountain killers 

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 - Produced from the March 23, 1929 issue of Argosy All Story Weekly magazine. .
 - Produced from the March 23, 1929 issue of Argosy All Story Weekly magazine. .
<br/><br/> Release date is 2025-11-27 
<br/><br/>Roger Frank and Sue Clark  Roger Frank and Sue Clark 
<br/><br/> Mountain killers by Thomas Barclay Thomson is a short pulp crime story written in the late 1920s. It centers on frontier vengeance in the mountains, where a planned ambush collides with chance, fear, and a lurking cougar.<br/><br/>Olaf Swensen lies in wait above a trail to kill Sim Satterlee, recently acquitted of murdering Olaf’s brother. As Sim approaches with his pack mules, a cougar crouches unseen above Olaf. Olaf holds Sim at gunpoint but, at the last moment, cannot bring himself to shoot. The cougar springs; Sim fires and wounds it, and the dying beast crashes onto him, fatally mauling him. When Olaf rushes down, Sim reveals with a dying boast that he had aimed his last shot at Olaf, not the cougar. The story closes on stark irony: Olaf’s mercy is met by treachery, and fate delivers the final judgment. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Short stories Western stories Revenge -- Fiction 
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