Around Truxton, Missouri, there's only one thing folks hate like death. And that's taxes. So when the Homestead Inspector is shot through the heart, no one cares—save for Clint Adams. The Gunsmith thinks he knows the cowards who did it. And he's about to show ’em that they can run from taxes, but they can't hide from death...

Clint Adams suddenly finds himself laid up in a one horse town. Seems that one horse up and kicked him, breaking his leg, Now the whole town wants a piece of the Gunsmith.

Railroad magnate Sam Fortune wants the Gunsmith to accompany him on the brand-new Orient Express from Paris to Istanbul -- and he's sweetening the deal with fine whiskey and fine women. But the pair may be gunned down before the trip even starts...

Thanks to his friend Moses, Clint is cruising on a new riverboat, the Biloxi Queen. It's smooth sailing at first, with class vittles, good whiskey, new cards, and cuddly women. But when a pack of hardcases spoils the fun, Clint wonders if he might be riding on a hot boat.

Denver is the place to be. Clint kills a man who stole a lot of loot from Wells Fargo--cash that ended up in the pocket of a federal marshal.

When illness strikes, no one pays attention to the doctor's orders. Clint Adams has always had a way of making folks listen. But an entire town? It might be more than even the Gunsmith can handle.

Excerpt from Firearms in American History: 1600 to 1800 The Colonists in America were the greatest weapon-using people of that epoch in the world. Everywhere the gun was more abundant than the tool. It furnished daily food; it maintained its owners claims to the possession of his homestead among the aboriginal owners of the soil; it helped to win the mother country's wars for possession of the country as a whole. These facts alone raise the interesting questions of what the Colonists used for weapons and where they got them. Further, the ultimate outcome of all strife between the Colonists and other people was victory for the Colonists. While the Colonists may have been excellent fighters, operating in the main upon home ground, and while their wars with other white people were side issues of European wars and to a considerable extent dependent upon the outcome there, it is nevertheless a fact that a war is composed of two factors, only one of which is the combatants themselves. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.