From Publishers Weekly
Immediately after the Civil War, the three Brannock brothers separately wend their ways to Denver, a bustling mining center. Earl is a professional gambler whose winnings allow him to open Denver's first honest gambling house. Virgil is a businessman who founds a wildly successful liquor wholesaling company and becomes a friend of the powers of Denver. Clint, who spent much of the war in a Northern prison camp, wants to avenge the murder of his parents at the hands of Union irregulars, and in the meantime becomes Denver's sheriff. Each brother faces tests of will and honesty with aplomb and courage, and each takes up with spicy, good-hearted women. The book leads to a bloody, blazing showdown, involving corrupt Denver politicos, the man responsible for the murder of the Brannocks' parents and stagecoach robbers. Afterwards, the Brannocks must leave Denver, but their honor and Denver's future are assured. Well plotted, this is an entertaining Western.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Review
"Matt Braun is a master storyteller of frontier history." -Elmer Kelton
"Matt Braun is head and shoulders above all the rest who would attempt to bring the gunmen of the old west to life." -Terry Johnston, author of The Plainsmen series
"Matt Braun is one of the best!" -Don Coldsmith, author of the Spanish Bit series
"Matt Braun has a genius for taking real characters out of the Old West and giving them flesh-and-blood immediacy." -Dee Brown, author of Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee
"Braun blends historical fact and ingenious fiction...A top-drawer Western novelist!" -Robert L. Gale
