Cheyenne Saturday - Empty-Grave Extended Edition

It's Saturday. Payday. Workers at the railhead prepare for a night of drinking and carousing as the supply train rolls into camp—bringing with it fresh workers, additional soldiers and, most importantly, the chest containing that weeks wages. The train also brings Nathan Ellis—a Texan with his holster hung low and tied at the thigh—looking to deliver a payment of his own.

On the horizon, Goose Face and his band of exiled indians watch the railhead slowly piercing the heart of indian country. He is looking to collect on a debt—and the only currency Goose Face accepts is the white man's scalp.

*Includes a brief photo-history of the Transcontinental Railroad.

This book is part of the Richard Jessup Rejuvenation Project. Stop by www.RichardJessup.com for project updates and the list of novels that are already available.

BIOGRAPHY

Richard Jessup (01/01/1925 – 10/27/1982) was born in Savannah, Georgia and died in Nokomis, Florida. He lived in and out of orphanages until age sixteen – when he ran away to join the United States Merchant Marine. In eleven years of seamanship, he claimed he read a book a day and learned to write by typing out the complete text of War and Peace and editing out the errors – he subsequently threw the edited work in the ocean. Jessup was married to Vera in 1944 and had a daughter named Marina. He left the Merchant Marine in 1948 to become a fulltime author. He was at the typewriter ten hours a day.

Jessup’s obituary claims he wrote over sixty novels (only confirmed a bibliography of thirty-four). His first novel, The Cunning and the Haunted, was published in 1954 and filmed as The Young Don’t Cry in 1957. Three other novels were also adapted to film – The Deadly Duo, Chuka, and The Cincinnati Kid. He sold the movie rights to the 1971 novel Foxway but it was never filmed. Jessup published eleven novels – primarily westerns and spy thrillers – as Richard Telfair. His last novel, Threat, was published in 1981.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Written as Richard Jessup

1954 – The Cunning and the Haunted (The Young Don’t Cry)

1955 – A Rage to Die

1956 – Cry Passion

1957 – Cheyenne Saturday

1957 – Comanche Vengeance

1958 – Long Ride West

1958 – Lowdown

1958 – Texas Outlaw

1959 – The Deadly Duo

1959 – The Man in Charge

1960 – Sabadilla

1960 – Night Boat to Paris

1961 – Chuka

1961 – Port Angelique

1961 – Wolf Cop

1963 – The Cincinnati Kid

1967 – The Recreation Hall

1969 – Sailor

1970 – A Quiet Voyage Home

1971 – Foxway

1974 – The Hot Blue Sea

1981 – Threat

Written as Richard Telfair

1958 – Day of the Gun

1958 – Wyoming Jones

1959 – The Bloody Medallion

1959 – The Corpse that Talked

1959 – The Secret of Apache Canyon

1959 – Wyoming Jones for Hire

1960 – Scream Bloody Murder

1960 – Sundance

1961 – Good Luck, Sucker

1961 –The Slavers

1962 – Target for Tonight

Film Adaptations

1957 – The Young Don’t Cry

1962 – Deadly Duo

1965 – The Cincinnati Kid

1967 - Chuka