Imagine it's early 1900's and you want to get away from it all. So you head to Two Palms, Arizona. Where for entertainment, people await the arrival of the daily stage coach. Gold mining is an avocation. There is desert everywhere, deadly rattlers, no paved roads, some people travel in model T's which they call flivvers. They must carry their own water, gasoline and tire patch kits for the many blowouts they encounter. The heat is blinding! The nearest "big" town is Meteorite which has an ice cream shop, a post office and a stage coach head office. Here's where it gets interesting! Three misfits, a disgraced surgeon, an ex bank robber and a former prominent businessman type all meet on the road to nowhere to team up and head to Two Palms to turn their lives around. Already there is a wealthy San Francisco businessman and his beautiful daughter the apple of everyone's eyes. Arizona Argonauts would make a great movie! There's intrigue, murder, mayhem, mystery and of course romance. Try it - you'll like it!
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Chapters
- Chapter 1
Two Palms
13:14 - Chapter 2
Shipwrecked Men
23:17 - Chapter 3
Bill Hobbs Arrives
24:03 - Chapter 4
Sandy Invests Twice
27:14 - Chapter 5
Clairedelune
22:19 - Chapter 6
Deadoak Feels Remorse
22:10 - Chapter 7
Stung!
17:43 - Chapter 8
Doctor Scudder
18:29 - Chapter 9
The News Story
25:31 - Chapter 10
Flight
18:07 - Chapter 11
The Sun Strikes
25:23 - Chapter 12
Scudder Comes
17:24 - Chapter 13
Untangled
05:11