Zachary Budd U.S. Marshal
Trebor Mack
- Orphan
- Zachery
- Budd
- began
- his
- life
- in
- the
- workhouses
- and
- poorhouses
- of
- Eighteenth-Century
- London.
- From
- there,
- he
- graduated
- to
- earn
- a
- living
- as
- a
- bare-knuckled
- prizefighter
- in
- the
- city's
- back
- streets.In
- 1865,
- on
- hearing
- tales
- of
- America
- from
- seafarers,
- he
- sailed
- from
- Southampton,
- England,
- to
- California
- in
- favour
- of
- the
- sailing
- vessel
- SV
- Seagull,
- arriving
- at
- the
- port
- town
- of
- Stockton.To
- pay
- his
- way
- and
- to
- bide
- his
- time
- while
- waiting
- to
- travel
- by
- stagecoach
- to
- Phoenix,
- Arizona,
- Zach
- took
- on
- a
- job
- at
- a
- local
- whorehouse
- that
- went
- by
- the
- name
- of
- The
- Purring
- Pussy.Follow
- Zach
- during
- his
- danger-ridden
- coach
- journey,
- his
- dealings
- with
- outlaws,
- Indians,
- and
- con
- men.
- And
- his
- appointment
- as
- marshal
- of
- the
- gold
- mining
- township
- of
- Wickenburg,
- where
- wrongdoers
- suffered
- the
- indignity
- of
- cutting
- out
- their
- time
- while
- shackled
- in
- the
- town
- square,
- to
- the
- Prison
- Tree.The
- young
- man,
- a
- recent
- inductee
- into
- adulthood,
- will
- confront
- instances
- of
- greed,
- cruelty,
- cold-blooded
- murders,
- and
- betrayal
- while
- wearing
- the
- badge
- of
- the
- sole
- law
- officer
- of
- the region.
