Mountain killers by Thomas Barclay Thomson
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Mountain killers by Thomas Barclay Thomson is a short pulp crime story written in the late 1920s. It centers on frontier vengeance in the mountains, where a planned ambush collides with chance, fear, and a lurking cougar. Olaf Swensen lies in wait above a trail to kill Sim Satterlee, recently acquitted of murdering Olaf’s brother. As Sim approaches with his pack mules, a cougar crouches unseen above Olaf. Olaf holds Sim at
gunpoint but, at the last moment, cannot bring himself to shoot. The cougar springs; Sim fires and wounds it, and the dying beast crashes onto him, fatally mauling him. When Olaf rushes down, Sim reveals with a dying boast that he had aimed his last shot at Olaf, not the cougar. The story closes on stark irony: Olaf’s mercy is met by treachery, and fate delivers the final judgment. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Thomson, Thomas Barclay, 1887-1978 |
|---|---|
| Title | Mountain killers |
| Original Publication | New York, NY: The Frank A. Munsey Company, 1929. |
| Series Title | Produced from the March 23, 1929 issue of Argosy All Story Weekly magazine. |
| Credits | Roger Frank and Sue Clark |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature |
| Subject | Short stories |
| Subject | Western stories |
| Subject | Revenge -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 77343 |
| Release Date | Nov 27, 2025 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 178 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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