Spur Award-Winning Author of The Sundown Chaser

From Dusty Richards, winner of the 2007 Spur Award for The Horse Creek Incident, comes a story of a man who stood up for the law—and another young man who stood up for what was right...

The road to manhood is long and hard…

Seventeen-year-old Wulf Baker has been crossed by his cruel stepfather one too many times. Before he kills him and winds up at the end of a rope, Wulf decides to make tracks out of town. He heads for Billings, Montana, where his older cousin Herschel Baker keeps the peace as an ex- rancher turned lawman.

Sheriff Baker is mighty glad to meet his young cousin—and to see he's good with a gun. Old Buffalo Malone has been robbed of his gold, and it's up to the sheriff to bring it back. He could use a good new deputy. Wulf is happy to pin on a badge and join the hunt, but once justice is served, he has a score or two to settle back home...

"The author has a definite flair for details that put the reader right into the action."
—Roundup Magazine