SPUR AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR

PASS CREEK VALLEY
A Western Duo

Here are two Western novels in a single volume by that incomparable Western storyteller Wayne D. Overholser.

Stage to Death is the story of Bill Mason, a stagecoach guard. He had once been a wild young hellion back in the Colorado mining camps, but that was in the past. For three years now he has had a perfect record in his present job in Oregon. He had even once been involved in a bank robbery when he was known as Billy Bock, but no one has any suspicion of him here. Or so he believed, until he was quietly approached in a saloon in Opal City just before the stage run to Tamarack. The law will find out all about his past unless he allows the Domino Kid to hold up the stage.

Pass Creek Valley, Kim Logan has always worked as a gun hand, for the last year as trouble-shooter for the great Clawhammer Ranch, owned by Peg Cody. The Clawhammer is now locked in a desperate struggle for mastery of the range with Hank Dunning, owner of the HD. The struggle between these two ranches is further complicated by the fact that Peg Cody wants the smaller ranchers on the mesa to be forced off their land so the Clawhammer can have access to their graze. This is something with which Kim Logan has no sympathy. But his most pressing job is to fetch to the Clawhammer a man named Yuma Bill who is coming in by stage, presumably with a bundle of money to help the local banker. Logan is certain that HD riders will hold up the same stage to get at Yuma Bill, and he intends to beat them to it.