Lust Not Ye for Gold

A short, forgotten Western story from the early years of pulp fiction.

Grizzled Uncle Herb lives in poverty, a hermit, but clings to his dream of finding lost gold in 1890’s Wyoming. A devious banker hires the wilderness-savvy but gullible Herb to deliver a small fortune in cash, but arranges for the dastardly Carl Hertl to rob the old man and leave him for dead in the desert. Too tough to die, Herb survives—only to learn that the local sheriff believes that he stole the cash and now is hot on Herb’s trail.

In this classic tale of the Old West by famed pulp author Anthony M. Rud, who has the distinction of writing the first story ever published in Weird Tales magazine, betrayal and revenge turn the lust for gold into a deadly showdown.

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