Lewis B Patten

"Death of a Gunfighter" Walt Street is on a stagecoach bound for Escalante, Colorado, where he hopes to reunite with his wife after two years of living without violence at her request. But when fellow passenger Ben Rawlins recognizes him as a man with a bounty on his head, a struggle ensues and Rawlins ends up dead. Walt switches identities and all is well until he finds out that Rawlins has inherited a small ranch that the neighboring Gunhammer Ranch...

"Here are two short novels by Lewis B. Patten, written at the height of his powers, appearing for the first time in book form. The White Cheyenne is the story of Julien Tremeau, son of mountain man and rancher Charles Tremeau and his Indian wife Red Earth Woman. Charles Tremeau thought his son should know the white world as well as the Indian, and so sent Julien East to school, only for Julien to return to the West, marry Bird Woman, and live with...

The Salt Creek Valley in Colorado Territory is the setting for " The Guns in Greasewood Valley," the story of brothers Tom and Dayton Roark, who share a small ranch. When Tom falls prey to malicious gossip about his wife, he responds with violence that escalates from a personal conflict to a crisis on the range. In the title story, Dan Iles is sent by his father to Ox-Yoke Ranch to see how much of their water John Mallory is diverting through his...

"With an injured hand and trailed by a killer who wants him dead, Longmire must face the fastest draw in Wyoming."--Amazon.

Before all the shooting started, Ross Dunbar thought Dry Creek looked like a good place to settle down. But if the pair of tough, desperate men who now had him trapped had their way, he'd likely be settling down in a shallow grave instead. It had all been caused by an act of conscience that had got him involved with the wife of a man he had shot. It was only a mission of mercy, for someone else's wife. But there was no way to explain that now to these...