The Fighting Horse of the Stanislaus: Stories and Essays by Dan de Quille

by Lawrence I. Berkove

Tongue-Oil Timothy, as unflappable as he is unconscionable, swindles Wasatch Sam in a villainous poker game. Amazed prospectors discover a full-grown silver man deep in a mountain tunnel. Old Pizen, a horse so mean that he was almost poison to himself, is wagered by his own owner in the fight of his life. The travelling stones of Pahranagat, when scattered about the ground, immediately huddle together like eggs in a nest. Highly eccentric but shrewd,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0877452997
• ISBN13: 9780877452997
• Release Date: August 1990
• Publisher: University of Iowa Press
• Length: 283 Pages
• Dimensions: 6.0" x 9.0"