San Francisco, 1853: As traveler John Steele strolled along a bustling thoroughfare, he suddenly found himself being crowded against a doorway and shoved into a small room by a stranger.
Reacting instinctively, Steele thrust his right hand against the door to prevent his assailant from shutting him inside, and with his left hand, he withdrew and cocked one of a pair of palm-sized, single-shot derringers he was carrying secreted inside his coat. Spying another bruiser standing in a side do
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