Wunpost: Two Classic Westerns

by Dane Coolidge

• Two of Dane Coolidge's most popular westerns are in this Kindle ebook: Wunpost and Shadow Mountain

Wunpost
John C. Calhoun was nicknamed “Wunpost”. Although he had the looks of a bronzed Greek god he wasn't very education. When he discovered a gold mine, he called it “Wunpost” instead of “One Post”. But what Calloun lacked in spelling, he made up for in hard work. Calhoun discovered gold mine after gold mine. And he also discovered that he had enemies.

Shadow Mountain
Under the rim of Shadow Mountain, embraced like a pearl of great price by the curve of Bonanza Point and the mined-out slope of Gold Hill, the deserted city of Keno lay brooding.
There were old men and cripples, left stranded by the exodus; and gold prospectors who had moved into the vacant houses along with the other desert rats. But out on the gallery of the old Huff mansion there was a flutter of activity Virginia, daughter of the old paymaster, was now a waiter, and Wiley Homan had decided to come back to town.

103 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 21, 2014

About the author

Dane Coolidge was born in Natick, Massachusetts, on March 24, 1873. He was brought up in Riverside, California, and received his higher education at Stanford and Harvard Universities. From 1895 to 1900 he was a field collector of mammals, birds and reptiles in Nevada, Arizona and Southern California for a number of institutions, including Stanford University, the British Museum, U. S. National Zoological Park, and the U. S. National Museum in Italy and France. On July 30, 1906, he married Nary Roberts, and the couple eventually made their home in Berkeley, California. In 1910, his first novel, Hidden Water, was published, and this was followed by a long succession of novels and some non-fiction, with California and Southwest locales. He and his wife collaborated on two books, The Navajo Indians (1930) and The Last of the Seris (1939). In addition, Coolidge contributed short stories and illustrated articles to several magazines, including Youth's Companion, Sunset, Redbook, Harper's and Country Life in America. Mr. Coolidge died in 1940; Mrs. Coolidge, in 1945.