Dave Kralick was a big man, heavy-boned and violent. He had to be to stay alive in the brawling, untamed Oregon Territory, where every man was his own law. But even Kralick wasn't tough or shrewd enough to match the treachery of a friend. From the night his sister Judy was betrayed by the man she loved, Kralick was a man who lived only to destroy. He was cold, ruthless, the way a man got when he knew he either had to kill or be killed.
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.
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