The Gamblers by Braun, Matt

ISBN: 0312962150

Author: Braun, Matt

Condition: new

"MATT BRAUN IS A MASTER STORYTELLER OF FRONTIER HISTORY."-Elmer KeltonTHEY WERE LEGENDS OF THE FRONTIERThey towered over the frontier: men like Hickok, Custer, Cody, and Earp. From Tombstone to Abilene, on a sprawling, rugged frontier, they forged a life by their cunning and courage. And between these gambling men-some who lost and some who won-was a woman who carved out a legend of her own.WHO LIVED-AND DIED-IN A GAME OF CHANCEA beautiful farm girl from Indiana, Mattie Silks traded innocence for the West's wildest men. But then her trail of love and money took her to the boomtown of Denver and a man named Cort Thomson-where Mattie could play for the highest stakes of all..."BRAUN IS ONE OF THE BEST!"-Don Coldsmith, author of the Spanish Bit series