TY  - BOOK
AU  - Haycox,Ernest
TI  - Bound south
T2  - Produced from the March 10, 1928 issue of Short Stories magazine
AV  - PS 
PY  - 2026///
CY  - Salt Lake City, UT
PB  - Project Gutenberg
KW  - Short stories
KW  - Western stories
KW  - Male friendship -- Fiction
KW  - Outlaws -- Fiction
KW  - Cowboys -- Fiction
KW  - Gambling -- Fiction
N1  - Release date is 2026-04-02; Prepared by volunteers at BookCove (bookcove.net); Originally published; New York: Doubleday, Doran and Co., 1928
N2  - Bound south by Ernest Haycox is a Western short story written in the early to mid-20th century. It centers on a drifting cowboy’s run-in with a lawless cowtown and the tests of loyalty and nerve that follow.

Joe Breedlove, a solitary, good-natured cowboy riding south, stumbles on Indigo Bowers, a fiery drifter fleeing a posse after a saloon shooting in Canyon. Joe helps Indigo slip the net and then goes into Canyon for food, where a desperate young woman begs him to rescue her father, Henry Allen, being bled dry at poker. In the Blazing Star saloon, Joe coolly disrupts the game by posing as a partner with a stake, faces down the sheriff, and—helped by a timely blaze that Indigo sets to distract the town—forces a pause that shames the gambler into returning Allen’s losses. After slipping the money back to the daughter, Joe and Indigo ride out. At a fork they part, but Indigo “accidentally” circles back, and the two drift south together, easy partners bound by wit, decency, and the open trail. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
UR  - https://s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com/luminist/PU/SHST_1928_03_10.pdf
UR  - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78339
ER  -