Cast a Long Shadow

by Wayne D. Overholser

Three-time Spur Award Winning Author Wayne D. Overholser

"STAY ON THE SIDE OF THE BIG MEN."

That was what Pat Keenan told his son as he lay dying, and young Matt Keenan vowed to follow his father's advice. But when he returned to his boyhood home in New Mexico, he ran into a hail of bullets fired by the company he had hoped to work for and local settlers the company wanted to evict. Caught in the cross fire, Keenan had to decide which meant a promise to a dead man, or the lives of hundreds of men and women who would rather die than lose their land.

A Classic Western Adventure byWAYNE D. OVERHOLSER

Winner of the Western Writers of America Lifetime Achievement Award

Genres: Fiction

217 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1955

About the author

Wayne D. Overholser (born September 4, 1906 in Pomeroy, Washington; died August 27, 1996 in Boulder, Colorado) was an American Western writer.

Overholser won the 1953 First Spur Award for best novel for Lawman using the pseudonym Lee Leighton. In 1955 he won the 1954 (second) Spur Award for The Violent Land. He also used the pseudonyms John S. Daniels, Dan J. Stevens and Joseph Wayne.

Reviews

[Robert Hepple · Rating 4 out of 5]

First published in 1957, Cast A Long Shadow is a western novel set in Colorado in the late 19th century. The plot involves the familiar theme of a large corporation using legal chicanery and coercion to remove farmers and small ranchers from a valley which it wishes to acquire. The character development is unusually strong and well achieved in a genre that often does things by the numbers, but this is not surprising given the skill and experience of the author.

[John · Rating 5 out of 5]

wow, i was about to give up , thinking there were no more 5 star books in my collection, this was great

[John · Rating 5 out of 5]

wonderful in every way