Download or read book The Ballad of Billy Shay written by Sylvia E Halloran and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-04-19 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: California's gold runs out before Bo Jenkins finds his share. His last chance is the Blackjack mine, and it buries him alive. Things couldn't get worse-then he meets Billy Shay, a kid with a troubled past and an impossible future. Billy's nose for gold leads them to wealth, and his knack for exploitation puts them on the path to ruin. Bo's journey back to wholeness depends on the townspeople of this busted boomtown who are as lost and lonely as he is. As for Billy Shay . . .