“Say,” I said, “where’s Lulu?”
“I left her back out of the way of danger,” Moose said. “I’ll go get her right now.”
He tuck off a-running, and I stood there a-thinking that now there didn’t seem to be nothing nor no one a-standing in the way a the new life what was a-waiting for me and the rest a my bunch a pards on down at the end a the trail.
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THE DEVIL’S TRAIL
A COLD HARD TRAIL
FUGITIVE’S TRAIL
“Robert Conley is possibly one of the most underrated and overlooked writers of our time, as well as most skilled. Versatile: Poetry, Humor, historical, Western, Mystery, even Horror. Now, Kid Parmlee. Neither a traditional general western character, a super-hero or antihero caricature, he is simply Kid Parmlee, a human being. In his pathetic way, Kid Parmlee is not a very good person, but also only as bad as survival requires. Simple yet clever, good and bad, sad and funny, failure and success … ‘The Kid’ holds up a mirror to the human condition.”
—Don Coldsmith, author of
the Spanish Bit Series and Bearer of the Pipe
“Kid Parmlee ain’t much shucks with the King’s English, but he’s loud and clear when he talks with his six-shooter. Robert Conley spins a fast-action tall tale salted with Western humor.”
—Elmer Kelton, author of
The Smiling Country and Cloudy in the West
—Max Evans, author of The Rounders,
The Hi-Lo Country, and Bluefeather Fellini
THE DEVIL’S TRAIL
Copyright © 2002 by Robert J. Conley.
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