Who Killed Chester Pray? A Death Valley Mystery. In A Last Rush For Riches In The American West, A Tale Of Fortune, Treachery, Love, And Deceit

NICHOLAS CLAPP

Publication: La Frontera Publishing, 2007, N P

First edition. 8vo. Color pictorial stiff wrappers, [8], 263 [1] pp., prologue, illustrated from photographs, portraits, maps, epilogue, notes, sources, and acknowledgements, index, about the author. "Seeking his fortune in the early 1900s, young prospector / assayer Chester Pray filched a Nevada sheriff's horses, stole gold belonging to a U. S. Senator, and ultimately discovered one of the richest lodes ever found in Death Valley. Then, Pray was shot dead in the night. By who? Why? As many as seven individuals had ample cause to kill Chester Pray. His new partners? Gunslinger 'Diamondfield Jack'? Even pretty Clara, his fiancé? The psychologically compelling answer is not what you might expect."--- rear cover promotional blurb. As new, unread copy.

Inventory Number: 53258