Scene 1: barroom, Virginia City, Montana 1864 1st. He’s been told to quiet his sips, but Slade’s ears hear advice through whiskey neat. 2nd. And these are not pleasant times for incautious men; the rabble, that tool of righteous or not, is roused and dangles rope from barn beams and dances a glee while fuller … Continue reading The True Story of an Almost Bad Man