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100 1 _aCunningham, Eugene,
_d1896-1957
245 1 0 _aMountain men
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2026
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aProduced from the May 5, 1928 issue of Top-Notch magazine.
500 _aRelease date is 2026-04-14
508 _aPrepared by volunteers at BookCove (bookcove.net)
520 _aMountain men by Eugene Cunningham is a Western short story written in the early 20th century. It focuses on a poaching incident that tangles with a simmering ranch feud in the New Mexico mountains, setting rough frontier justice and local loyalties against the pressure of outside money and authority. Bud Ranger and his younger brother slip onto Ben Lingo’s range at dawn to take a deer; Bud drops a buck, but Brother’s leg wedges between boulders. While trying to hide the kill, Bud is disarmed and arrested by Hawkins, a cool ex–Texas Ranger deputy, and brought before Lingo’s makeshift court, where an overbearing Easterner, Carter, demands harsh punishment. Though at odds with Bud’s father, Lingo fines Bud but offers him the chance to work off the debt and even a foreman’s job, revealing a steadier sense of mountain justice than his bluster suggests. Stung by a glimpse of Sudie May riding off with a man he assumes is the dismissed foreman, Bud broods, only to learn Lingo actually sent her with Rod Kendall to check a suspected trespass. Urged to ride at once, Bud heads upriver to free his trapped brother and sort the tangle of pride, feud, and affection, as Lingo quietly turns punishment into a test and a second chance. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cNew York, NY: Street & Smith Corporation, 1928
653 _aShort stories
653 _aWestern stories
653 _aHunters -- Fiction
653 _aJustices of the peace -- Fiction
830 0 _aProduced from the May 5, 1928 issue of Top-Notch magazine.
856 4 _uhttps://s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com/luminist/PU/TN_1928_05_15.pdf
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78442
999 _c119162
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