Slocum and the High-graders — Jake Logan

Slocum's short fuse is going to blow some gold thieves sky high!

Slocum's lost his horse trying to raise a grub stake against cardsharps in Cripple Creek. Hungry and broke in a hostile boomtown, Slocum literally falls into a job -- when an explosion caves in a mine beneath him. Working in a dangerous hellhole may seem a little like digging your own grave, but it beats starving, so Slocum hires on as a miner.
 
Every vein of gold in the Low Down peters out faster than morals in a cathouse. The miners hate the treacherous foreman -- and Slocum almost gets buried alive. But the owner won't get involved. Not even his gorgeous daughter, Evangeline -- who makes Slocum feel like he's scored the mother lode -- can convince her papa that high-graders are robbing him blind. But Slocum is determined to find who's behind this, and he's giving these high-graders an F -- for fatal…