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The Guns of Red Mesa: American Frontier Western Novel
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ISBN10: 1971561452
ISBN13: 9781971561455
Publisher: Discovery Walkabout Press
Published: May 11 2026
Pages: 188
Weight: 0.42
Height: 0.43 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781971561455
Publisher: Discovery Walkabout Press
Published: May 11 2026
Pages: 188
Weight: 0.42
Height: 0.43 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
When a Town Decides Who You Are - Can You Stay Who You Were?
Colorado Canyon Country, 1878. Red Mesa doesn't run on silver anymore. It runs on blood, spectacle, and the manufactured reputations of men forced into a chalk-marked lane at gunpoint while a crowd cheers and a promoter counts the money. When drifter Boone Creed rides into town and refuses to become the next name on a poster, Red Mesa's machine turns against him. But Boone has something the town's promoters didn't count on: he reads ledgers as clearly as he reads men.
Colorado Canyon Country, 1878. Red Mesa doesn't run on silver anymore. It runs on blood, spectacle, and the manufactured reputations of men forced into a chalk-marked lane at gunpoint while a crowd cheers and a promoter counts the money. When drifter Boone Creed rides into town and refuses to become the next name on a poster, Red Mesa's machine turns against him. But Boone has something the town's promoters didn't count on: he reads ledgers as clearly as he reads men.
- A gripping frontier thriller set in the historically rich canyon settlements of 1870s Colorado, where staged duels, telegraph-wired reputations, and crowd manipulation ruled the day
- A morally complex hero who fights not with a fast draw, but with the courage to stand still while a hungry crowd demands a performance
- A villain-driven conspiracy exposing the dark machinery behind Red Mesa's duel economy - rigged odds, manufactured champions, and ruthless silence
- Rich historical authenticity rooted in the Denver & Rio Grande Railway era, Colorado's boom-and-bust canyon towns, and the fragile law of the late frontier
- Timeless themes of identity, integrity, and the cost of refusing to disappear into someone else's story
Get your copy of The Guns of Red Mesa today and ride into the most dangerous canyon in the American West.
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