A Civil War veteran and widower struggles to keep his children alive in a pair of classic Western tales. Things looked dark for Emery Bandine when he returned to Spanish Crossing from fighting in the Civil War. Conditions in Texas were so harsh that he could barely feed his family. He started to gather a stake by rounding up unbranded cattle in the
Author Biography
Les Savage Jr. was a profile Western noir author from Los Angeles who wrote nearly one hundred magazine stories set on the American frontier before authoring the first of many novels in 1947. He died in 1958 at the age of thirty-five.
