One Man Against the Ruthless Power of the Santa Fe Fur Trading EmpireA Novel of Davy Crockett Days by the man who "launched the Davy Crockett craze." -Oakland Tribune"Top flight storytelling." Springfield MO Leader and PressThe Mexican War was over, and in its bloody wake came the trappers, the traders, the outlaws. Spanish and Anglo kept uneasy peace as fortunes were made and lost almost overnight in Santa Fe.
The profit motive destroyed the weak and emboldened the strong, pitted the ruthless power of the big merchants against the wildness and cunning of the mountain men..The long hand of Edouard Duval reached from St. Louis to Santa Fe. Duval was a big man; he didn't have to soil his own hands with his dirty work. But he took pleasure in picturing the results. Especially when he thought of Jim King-full of liquor, stumbling to his room behind his store.
Too full of liquor to smell the smoke, helped by lamp oil, curling slowly around $38, 000 in fur pelts.
One Man Against the Ruthless Power of the Santa Fe Fur Trading EmpireA Novel of Davy Crockett Days by the man who "launched the Davy Crockett craze." -Oakland Tribune"Top flight storytelling." Springfield MO Leader and PressThe Mexican War was over, and in its bloody wake came the trappers, the traders, the outlaws. Spanish and Anglo kept uneasy peace as fortunes were made and lost almost overnight in Santa Fe.
The profit motive destroyed the weak and emboldened the strong, pitted the ruthless power of the big merchants against the wildness and cunning of the mountain men..The long hand of Edouard Duval reached from St. Louis to Santa Fe. Duval was a big man; he didn't have to soil his own hands with his dirty work. But he took pleasure in picturing the results. Especially when he thought of Jim King-full of liquor, stumbling to his room behind his store.
Too full of liquor to smell the smoke, helped by lamp oil, curling slowly around $38, 000 in fur pelts.