Riders From Long Pines

Description

When four drovers stumble upon the bloody aftermath of a stagecoach robbery, they discover a hidden cache of money belonging to the most powerful man in the county. Briefly tempted to fill their saddlebags and run, they decide to do the right thing and return the cash. And that task may not be as easy as it sounds. Buckshot Parks, the outlaw responsible for the robbery, is dead-set on getting back his money, and he has a stolen badge to hide behind while he tracks the "thieves." But there's a real lawman on Buckshot's trail-Arizona Ranger Sam Burrack. With his shotgun-toting partner, Maria, he's determined to catch the outlaw and get to the drovers before they meet with serious harm for doing good.

Ralph Cotton has been an ironworker, second mate on a commercial barge, a teamster, a horse trainer, and a lay minister with the Lutheran church. He's written six historical novels in the critically-acclaimed Jetson Nash series, one of which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. He lives in Corydon, Illinois.

"A storyteller in the best tradition of the Old West." -- Matt Braun