The Gambling Man (Avalon Western)
By Kent Conwell.
Description
"You got a choice. Hang as a horse thief or teach our schoolkids." That was the decision facing Mage Casebolt, a decision that made him wish he had never disembarked the riverboat at New Orleans. Bound for San Francisco to join his brothers in a gambling emporium, Mage's journey halts abruptly in Valley Springs when he is framed for horse stealing. The teaching job is unpleasant enough, but then a cholera epidemic quarantines the town, saddling him with an old freed slave, twelve boisterous schoolchildren who make a practice of running teachers out of town, and the local p...
ISBN(s)
0803495803, 9780803495807
