The Last Narrow Gauge Train Robbery. Robert K. Swisher Jr.

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      For Moose, who rode those mountain trails,drank that rot gut whiskey;sometimes old friend, you have to bite the bullet ….

      All of the characters in this book

      are fictitious, and any resemblance

      to actual persons, living or dead,

      is purely coincidental

      Copyright © 1987 by Robert K Swisher, Jr.

      All Rights Reserved

      No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any

      electronic or mechanical means including information storage and

      retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the publisher,

      except by a reviewer who may quote brief passages in a review.

      Printed in the United States of America

      Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

      Swisher, Robert K., 1947-

      The last narrow gauge train robbery.

      I. Title.

      PS3569.W574L37 1987 813′.54 87-6491

      ISBN: 0-86534-106-0

      Published in 1987 by SUNSTONE PRESS

      Post Office Box 2321

      Santa Fe, NM 87504-2321 / USA

       Chapter 1

       Chapter 2

       Chapter 3

       Chapter 4

       Chapter 5

       Chapter 6

       Chapter 7

       Chapter 9

       Chapter 10

       Chapter 11

       Chapter 12

       Chapter 13

       Chapter 14

       Chapter 15

       Chapter 16

       Chapter 17

       Chapter 18

       Chapter 19

       Chapter 20

       Chapter 21

       Chapter 22

       Chapter 23

       Chapter 24

       Chapter 25

       Chapter 26

      With each passing mile, Bill Masterson felt the tension drain from his body. Another thirty minutes and he would be on the edge of the mountains; another year, another yearly trip. God, the time flew anymore. He wondered if they would make it. He prayed they would. This would make the tenth year and nobody had missed yet; but, the apprehension was always there. Although they were all in their mid-thirties, one day somebody would be the first to die. What shit life is, Bill decided. He rummaged around in his shirt pocket and dug out the inch-long roach of Afghani weed. As the smoke curled around his head, Bill once again fell back into the joy of not thinking about responsibilities, and picturing the mountain trail that would lead his friends and him high into the San Juan Wilderness to Green Lake.

      At the edge of the mountains, Bill drove toward Chama. Surrounded by the Santa Fe Forest and the San Juan Wilderness, the New Mexico town is the kickoff point for many different people wishing to see a glimpse of an America that is rapidly shrinking. During the summer, an endless line of bird watchers, fishermen, and campers make their way through the town. During the fall, grouse, elk, deer, and big horn sheep hunters fill the woods.

      Chama consists of people who don’t want to ask questions and don’t want to answer any. Six bars line the main street, scratching out a living from truck drivers trying to dodge scales and out-doorsmen. The only establishment that makes a good living year round is the Wagon Wheel Bar because the owner, a Mr. Saavedra, loves girls with big tits, dreams of girls with big tits, only hires girls with big tits. With big tits ingrained in modern society, the Wagon Wheel always has enough men in it to pay the bills.

      Years earlier, Bill Masterson had heard about the bar on the C.B. as he was driving north of Albuquerque.

      “Lord,” the trucker had said, “her tits were the best I’ve seen in years. Big enough to get your tongue hard.”

      After that, the yearly meeting place before the onslaught into the wilderness was changed to the Wagon Wheel. After all, the thinking was, if a group of has-been hippies was going to meet once a year from all corners of the country to go fishing, they might as well meet at a place where the barmaids have big tits.

      Scattered behind the bar are several hundred small wooden homes which look like they belong more in the midwest than New Mexico. At this elevation, there are no quaint adobe homes selling for ridiculous prices. Instead, wood frame homes sell for ridiculous prices.

      At one time, the staff of life to the town was the lumber mill. One either worked at the mill, cut the trees in the forest, or drove the trucks that hauled the trees. But, when the mill

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