He rode across the West, a hard-muscled, long-boned man, with a face burned to Indian bronze by sun and wind. His buckskin shirt was darkened by dirt and age, his broad-brimmed black hat had two bullet holes in the crown. He carried a knife in a scabbard on his left side, a .45 Colt in a holster on his right side, and kept his Winchester in the boot of his Mexican leather saddle. He was Rafe Dolan, and his name was a legend. Maybe too much of a legend. There were always bully-boys who didn't believe that any man could take on the odds of twenty guns to one. And Rafe had to show them . . .
One of America's greatest Western storytellers, Wayne D. Overholser was born September 4, 1906 in Pomeroy, Washington and died August 27, 1996 in Boulder, Colorado. Overholser won the 1953 First Spur Award for best novel for Lawman using the pseudonym Lee Leighton. In 1955 he won the 1954 (second) Spur Award for The Violent Land. He also used the pseudonyms John S. Daniels, Dan J. Stevens and Joseph Wayne.
Learn more about the author on his website: www.waynedoverholser.