Ernest Haycox's Western Marshal #1
"Western Marshal" kicks off with Dan Mitchell, a former lawman now ready to settle down, pulled back into duty when the marshal of Grubstake is shot dead. As tensions flare between miners and "jumpers" exploiting a loophole in claim law, Mitchell must maintain order in a town where gold fever and water rights are about to boil over. Everett Kinstler’s dynamic art brings the dusty frontier to life, while William George’s cover captures the grit and danger of the West in 1954.
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After resigning as marshal of River Bend, Dan Mitchell intends to get married and take up ranching. However, he is pressed into service as a marshal again when the marshal of Grubstake, a gold boomtown, is shot. Mitchell has to keep the peace between miners and "jumpers," who use a technicality in the claim law to take over any claim that hasn't been worked in a week. Complicating matters is Carson, who owns a lake that has water that miners need to process their gold, but refuses to sell them any of it.
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