Download or read book The Last Days of Horse-Shy Halloran written by Bill Pronzini and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on 2015-03-06 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Things are heating up in Big Coulee. Unorthodox road agent Horse-shy Halloran, who got his name because horses always do him dirt, has been seen in town buying women's clothing. The gold miners' association is about to ship $70,000 of gold dust. The brutal and fearsome Burgoyne brothers are in the neighborhood. And Wells Fargo agent Samuel Quarternight has fallen in love with the banker's daughter, Faye. Halloran just wants to make off with the gold, but he gets far more deeply involved with this cast than he'd like and becomes an unwilling and thoroughly despised hero.