01965cam a22003373u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003704000110007804100170008905000070010610000400011324500210015326400510017430000470022533600260027233700260029833800360032449000800036050000310044050800300047152008670050153400750136865300180144365300200146165300230148183000800150485600430158477343UtSlPG20260610134806.0mcr n260607r20251929utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  aUtSlPG 7aen2iso639-1 4aPS1 aThomson, Thomas Barclay,d1887-197810aMountain killers 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2025  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier1 aProduced from the March 23, 1929 issue of Argosy All Story Weekly magazine.  aRelease date is 2025-11-27  aRoger Frank and Sue Clark  aMountain 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.

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.)  pOriginally published:cNew York, NY: The Frank A. Munsey Company, 1929  aShort stories  aWestern stories  aRevenge -- Fiction 0aProduced from the March 23, 1929 issue of Argosy All Story Weekly magazine.40uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77343