TY  - BOOK
AU  - Thomson,Thomas Barclay
TI  - Mountain killers
T2  - Produced from the March 23, 1929 issue of Argosy All Story Weekly magazine
AV  - PS 
PY  - 2025///
CY  - Salt Lake City, UT
PB  - Project Gutenberg
KW  - Short stories
KW  - Western stories
KW  - Revenge -- Fiction
N1  - Release date is 2025-11-27; Roger Frank and Sue Clark; Originally published; New York, NY: The Frank A. Munsey Company, 1929
N2  - 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.

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.)
UR  - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77343
ER  -