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Martin H. Greenberg. Ghost Towns
GHOST TOWNS. Edited by Martin H. Greenberg and Russell Davis
Contents
Introduction. Russell Davis
The Water Indian. Steve Hockensmith
The Ghosts of Duster. William W. Johnstone with J. A. Johnstone
St. Elmo in Winter. Margaret Coel
Mr. Kennedy’s Bones. Johnny D. Boggs
Gunfight at Los Muretos. Bill Brooks
Iron Mountain. Candy Moulton
The Defense of Sentinel. Louis L’Amour
Paradise Springs. Sandy Whiting
Silent Hill. Larry D. Sweazy
End of the Line. Lori Van Pelt
The Town That Wouldn’t Quit. Deborah Morgan
Now We Are Seven. Loren D. Estleman
Contention City, 1951. Jeff Mariotte
The Ghost of Two Forks. Elmer Kelton
Kiowa Canyon. James A. Fischer
About the Authors
About the Editors
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Kennedy’s daughters stopped their bustling in the kitchen, listening along with my brother and me as their father told his tale.
“The Utes called it a Pawapict—a Water Indian. A spirit that lives in the lake. A lonely, ghostly thing, they said. Coaxes you in, then never lets you go. They can come to you as a snake, a baby, even a beautiful woman…or so the legend goes. I never put any stock in it myself. Redskin twaddle, that’s all I took it for. But then those Latter Day heretics swarmed in, and before long they were claiming the Indians were right. Some of the Brethren started saying they’d seen a sea serpent up near Fish Haven. The Bear Lake Monster, they called it. Of course, it was obvious what they were trying to do—scare us ‘Gentiles’ off our land. But we just laughed…until we started seeing the thing ourselves. A giant with great, glowing eyes prowling around our farms, frightening our women and children. Well…first the Mormons, and now this? It was more than most people could take. Argyle—that’s what the town called itself then—it just drifted away, scattering like dandelion seeds on the wind until it was all gone.”
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