Bare-Faced Outrage: 20 July 1889

By Martyn C. Marais

Wyoming Territory, 20 July 1889, Billy Cotton stumbles across a lynching about to take place in a hidden gulch. The victims are a couple of homesteaders, Ellen Watson and James Avery. The lynchers are six cattle barons who despise the way homesteaders are breaking up the open grazing land they see as their own. In the stand off that follows will Billy be able to save the innocent couple or will the cattle barons prevail and commit “one of the most bare-faced outrages ever committed in the territory”?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Martin
• Release date: Jul 19, 2020
• ISBN: 9781005048327

Martyn C. Marais

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Bare-Faced Outrage

20 July 1889

A Billy Cotton Short Story by Martyn C. Marais

© Martin Marais 2020

Martin Marais has asserted his rights under the

Copyright, Design and Patents Act, 1988,

to be identified as the author of this work.

Published in 2020

Dedicated to Ellen L. Watson and James Averell

Victims of a bare-faced outrage.

I lift my hat and run a sleeve across my forehead. I raise my gaze to the azure sky. Soft brilliant white clouds have settled above the low ridge of hills to the south.

I’ll say one thing about Wyoming, I say to Anthracite as he gratefully draws cool water from the Sweetwater River, the skies are sure biiiig.

Anthracite gives a throat rumble as though in agreement. I lean forward and pat his strong, soot-black neck. A cloud of dust rises from under my hand. For