Kiowa County Public Library District

The Great West, prior to the century's turn, abounded in legend. Stories were told of fabled gunmen, whose bullets always magically found their mark, of mighty stallions, whose tireless gallop rivaled the speed of the wind, of glorious women, whose beauty stunned mind and heart. But, nowhere in the vast spread of the mountain-desert country was there a greater legend told than the story of Red Pierre and the phantom gunfighter, McGurk. These two...

There was mystery surrounding Clung's birth - but none about his skill with weapons. At first he shot in self-defence but then he killed recklessly to avenge an insult and was forced to flee.

"The Lonely Law was Jim Larribee, Sheriff of Pinnacle County. Larribee had been befriended in many ways and had finally been helped to his office by Big Dan Sharples, and rumor had it that Big Dan owned Larribee from ears to hocks, and the star with him. But Larribee felt different. He knew that the star built a wall around a man -- that he was in a damned lonely corner. But the middle of the road was where he would stay, playing no favorites, and...

A freak accident turns a spiritless, poverty stricken sheepherder into a feared man-killer and wealthy rancher.