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Supper is served at
The Murderess of Slaughterhouse Gulch
by J.B. Fox
"Let us eat and drink; for to morrow we die."
Isaiah 22:13
She kept a warm house. She kept it full.
Wyoming Territory, the 1870s. In a gold camp where men outnumber women a hundred to one, Polly Bartlett knows exactly what hungry men want.
A hot supper. A frontier innkeeper feeds lonely men at her long table. Some of them never leave.
The novel is drawn from a Wyoming legend: Polly Bartlett, remembered as the Murderess of Slaughterhouse Gulch, an innkeeper of the gold-camp era whose story has been told and retold on the frontier. It is told here in her own voice, as a first-person historical horror novel.
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