Mountain killers by Thomas Barclay Thomson
The enchanted kingdom by Nevis Shane is a short story written in the early 20th century. It likely explores vengeance, moral hesitation, and the harsh, fateful justice of a rugged mountain landscape. A stoic mountaineer, Olaf Swensen, ambushes Sim Satterlee, the man acquitted of murdering Olaf’s brother, along a sunlit trail. As Sim approaches with his pack mules, a starving cougar crouches above, turning the standoff into a three-way tension. Olaf, after
taunting his enemy, breaks and cannot shoot; at that instant the cougar leaps, and Sim draws his revolver, wounding the beast midair. The animal overshoots Olaf and crashes down on Sim; despite more shots, it mauls him fatally. When Olaf rushes down, Sim’s last words reveal he had tried to kill Olaf and simply missed; he dies unrepentant, and fate—not the avenger’s hand—delivers the final justice. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Thomson, Thomas Barclay, 1887-1978 |
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| Title | Mountain killers |
| Original Publication | New York, NY: The Frank A. Munsey Company, 1929. |
| Series Title | Produced from the March 23, 1929 issue of Argosy All Story Weekly magazine. |
| Credits | Roger Frank and Sue Clark |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature |
| Subject | Short stories |
| Subject | Western stories |
| Subject | Revenge -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 77343 |
| Release Date | Nov 27, 2025 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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