Trouble at Quinn's Crossing

by Nelson C. Nye

When Horatio Gill rode his wagon into Quinn's Crossing, few could have forseen the load of trouble it carried. The product Gill brought to Quinn's Crossing had sparked many a range war. But his goal in life was to sell barbed wire and he didn't care what happened to the people he sold it to.

Genres: Westerns

Paperback

First published January 1, 1971

About the author

Nelson Coral Nye was an American author, wrote westerns and non-fiction books on quarter horses. Besides Nelson C. Nye he also wrote fiction using the pseudonyms Clem Colt and Drake C. Denver.
1959 Spur Award winning author for 'Long Run'.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_... and https://absolutewestern.fandom.com/wi...

Reviews

[Thomas · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was my first sampling of Nelson Nye's works. Nye was one of the original founders of the Western Writers of America Association and a 2 time Golden Spur award winner. This is a story of a traveling barbed wire salesmen introducing the product in an area that is already a hotbed for cattlemen and ranchers. Tensions are high due to lack of rain and water shortages. Gil Horatio makes a big contract sale of his wire to one of the larger ranches who uses it to fence off access to the river on his land thus restricting the water from the smaller outfits in the surrounding area to which their cattle depend on to thrive. Gil was viewed as a devil, a hated man for introducing & selling the new barbed wire product. Pretty good book that I'd recommend to those that enjoy western with this one centering in during the first introduction of barbed wire.

[Charles · Rating 3 out of 5]

Read a long time ago and I don't remember much more than I liked it.