The Story
Twenty-year-old Jeremiah Bacon has never fired a gun or even ridden a horse. He’s headed by train with his parents from Boston to San Francisco to start a career as a concert pianist. But his father is killed in a holdup of a Wells Fargo office in Point of Rocks, Wyoming, and Jeremiah swears to catch the murderers no matter what it takes.
He plunges into an entirely new world. His piano playing gets him a job in a saloon, where he’s introduced to cowboys and beer, poker and brawls, and the beautiful, captivating Stacey. He grabs the chance to be a stagecoach driver to South Pass City and becomes equally enamored of Anita, the Wells Fargo agent’s pretty daughter.
But it’s his gunfighting lessons from Marshal Otis MacKenzie and his drive for vengeance that takes him into deadly conflict with the cold-blooded outlaws of the Red Desert Gang. He willingly puts his life at stake to avenge his father, but at the same time he also learns a lot about people and what’s really important in life.
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The image used for the cover is one I took of the interior of the Carissa Saloon in the South Pass City State Historic Site in Wyoming. South Pass City plays a prominent role in my novel. It was an important gold mining boom town in the mid 19th century but was pretty much a ghost town by the time of my novel. Still, it is essential for my story.
I made a YouTube video of the site and related it to the scenes in my story:
and my Western novel “Jeremiah Bacon”
