Brief description:
From the book cover:
The first in a series of the famous Al Palmer, U.S. Marshall, West Point graduate, former southern officer, and spy.
U.S. Marshal Al Palmer had been summoned from t'he Dakota Territory to Washington, D.C., in the early Spring of l869 and sat listening to Assistant Secretary of War Jonas Lamphere unwind a gruesome tale which was shortly to become his next assignment.
Deep in the Rocky Mountains of the little known Colorado Territory, Major Larson, a former Confederate Army officer, secretly holds over 2000 Union soldiers in slavery. For more than four years Larson has been mining silver with Northern soldiers taken captive during the Civil War. In an inescapable box canyon slave mine, Larson is sending silver to the South for reconstruction. Larson's natural fortress is revealed in history to be Devil's Claw, a canyon named by the lndians and virtually impossible lo escape from or attack.
In I869 few white men knew anything of the new and savagely beauļ¬iul Colorado Territory. Al Palmer was one of the few. He was rough, cunning and ruggedly handsome. Palmer was a loner and save for +he small glint of his badge, he looked every bit the part of a while man turned Indian.
The first in a series of the famous Al Palmer, U.S. Marshall, West Point graduate, former southern officer, and spy.
U.S. Marshal Al Palmer had been summoned from t'he Dakota Territory to Washington, D.C., in the early Spring of l869 and sat listening to Assistant Secretary of War Jonas Lamphere unwind a gruesome tale which was shortly to become his next assignment.
Deep in the Rocky Mountains of the little known Colorado Territory, Major Larson, a former Confederate Army officer, secretly holds over 2000 Union soldiers in slavery. For more than four years Larson has been mining silver with Northern soldiers taken captive during the Civil War. In an inescapable box canyon slave mine, Larson is sending silver to the South for reconstruction. Larson's natural fortress is revealed in history to be Devil's Claw, a canyon named by the lndians and virtually impossible lo escape from or attack.
In I869 few white men knew anything of the new and savagely beauļ¬iul Colorado Territory. Al Palmer was one of the few. He was rough, cunning and ruggedly handsome. Palmer was a loner and save for +he small glint of his badge, he looked every bit the part of a while man turned Indian.
Publication
Apollo Press (1971)