William MacLeod Raine schuf fesselnde Abenteuergeschichten, die tief in der amerikanischen Prärie verwurzelt sind. Sein Schreiben zeichnet sich durch akribische Detailgenauigkeit und einen handwerklichen Ansatz aus, was seine Hingabe an sein Werk widerspiegelt. Raines Erzählungen lassen die Leser in die Welt der amerikanischen Grenze eintauchen und erwecken ihre rauen Landschaften und überzeugenden Charaktere zum Leben. Seine produktive Schaffenszeit und die anhaltende Anziehungskraft seiner Westernromane haben seinen Platz als bedeutende Stimme des Genres gefestigt.
Young lawyer O'Hara gets an auspicious welcome to the town of Concho -- a bullet through his hat. And before he has a chance to put up a shingle, he becomes involved in a bloody war between two cattle titans, Wesley Steelman and Dave Ingram. It is war without quarter, and among the two-gun mercenaries employed by both sides, the most notorious is eighteen-year-old Bob Quantrell. Cheerful and fearless, but a cold-blooded killer, Quantrell is loyal only to his own lightning-fast six-gun.
Ben Travis, owner of the Triple X, was dead on his own front porch, and his nephew, Hugh Travis, started west to investigate. In his pocket he carried a letter from Charles Waller, his friend and attorney -- a mysterious letter which spoke of danger and a deadly feud.
"The tale starts in a cantor and breaks into an early gallop that continues through 248 pages. Raine uses all his old tricks to kindle tension." Salt Lake Tribune The proud and iron-willed Harvilles have been engaged in a bloody feud with the stubborn Logans, a neighboring family of bluebloods, since the recent end of the Civil War. But that doesn't stop Larry Harville, returning to the family plantation after years away in England, from falling in love with a Logan woman...and when bloody-thirsty, outlaw killers ride into their Arkansas town, the families must put their violent hatred aside to fight a common enemy. "William MacLeod Raine stands alongside Zane Grey among writers of western adventure tales." The Capital TImes (Madison, Wisconsin) Back in print for the first time in over 60 years. This is the last novel written by William MacLeod Raine (1871-1954), author of over 80 westerns, and was published shortly after his death. The book was also released under the titles Six-Gun Feud and Plantation Guns. Raine was inducted into the Hall of Great Westerners of the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in 1959.
Jim Silcott was filling in as editor of the Powder Horn Sentinel after the former editor and owner, Carl Rogers, had been shot down from ambush because he dared to buck the mighty Hat T gang. And Jim was carrying on Rogers's fight against dictatorial Russell Mosely in the feud over the conflicting land grants to former Spanish landholders which affected the lives of nearly all the settlers on Tincup Creek. He had carried it to the point where his own life was worth not much more than a dime.
