Outlaws of Halfaday Creek

Outlaws of Halfaday Creek

by James B. Hendryx
Publisher: A. L. Burt Company
©1935, Item: 95631
Hardcover, 299 pages
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Summary from the book:

BLACK JOHN SMITH MAKES LAW IN HALFADAY

CORPORAL DOWNEY, Mr. Hendryx's famous hero, has a part in these casual and hilarious adventures of a group of hard-bitten sourdoughs in the Yukon, but Black John Smith is the star, Black John, the hard-fisted dictator tor of Halfaday. Lying as it did close to the international boundary, Halfaday furnished an ideal retreat for those who were wanted on either side of the line. The fact that the gravel along the creek commonly yielded "better than wages" in gold furnished these men with occupation. And Cushing's Fort was the rendezvous whereat they traded, and drank, and banked their dust.

What any man had done before he came to Halfaday was no man's business–what he did after he got there was every man's business. And of Halfaday, Black John Smith was dictator supreme. He called "miners' meetings" which dispensed grim justice in grim form. "For," as he said, "the farther the Law keeps from Halfaday the better for all concerned. Just as soon as the police come snooping around, too many of the boys' pasts is going to pop up. So, everything here is going to run so smoothly and morally that there will be no call for the Law's interferin'." How well he succeeded is told in the pages of this joyful and fast-moving story.

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