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The Rider of the Mohave is a fast-paced western novel by authorJames Fellom. The story involves a gang of notorious train robbers who are hell bent on robbing a train but they are closely pursued by an honest sheriff. Sheriff Warburtonwill stop at nothing to put them behind the bars, but at what cost? Excerpt: "It was three in the morning, but Geerusalem had not yet closed its eyes. There was too much undug gold in the hills; it was too handy—too easy come, easy go; the days, too short; the pleasures, too wanton, too alluring. The camp of Geerusalem promenaded, gambled, danced, fought, debauched the night away, waiting for to-morrow. Far out on desolate Soapweed Plains, rose the intermittent, yelping wail-bark of a coyote. The back door of a little store that fronted on the main street opened cautiously. The interior of what was a kitchen was dark; the flower-garden yard into which it gave, was also dark. The shadowy form of a man emerged and halted; he peered carefully about through the gloom…"

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