The copper city

the long version

Cananea was the copper city. A sprawling Mexican town of saloons and whorehouses, populated by miners who took the wealth from the grudging earth and parasites drawn by the lure of easy pickings. It was here Quantro came to earn the money to buy a ranch whose cattle would carry the Quantro brand. Something always killed his dream. A businessman protecting his interests, a miner like a grizzly bear who didn’t like Quantro’s face and who tried to alter it, two men trying to rape his woman, or a bunch of outlaws trying to steal the silver he was protecting. Whichever way it happened Quantro always found himself in the middle of the gunfire.