The Gunfighter: A Western Adventure

by Dave P. Fisher

A brand new Seaver And Long Rider Western adventure from Dave P. Fisher!

When an agent for a Kansas City meat packer comes to Fort Worth to talk with the ranchers about shipping them beef from the new train stop, it brought Ruff Foster out of his snake hole. Foster’s vast ranch in Palo Pinto County was built on theft, murder, and hired guns. He thinks to hog the Kansas City market away from the other ranches, until he runs into Wade Chambers and the hate he bears him. Ten years before, Foster had tried to force Wade off his small but growing ranch. Foster still limped from the answer Wade’s Army Colt gave him. He needed Wade out of the way to succeed.

Caleb Darcy, gunfighter and hired gun for Foster, learns that Jack is at the Chambers’ ranch. Jack had stood with the Ogallala sheriff to send his brother, Julep, to prison for murder. He sends word to Jack that he’s calling him out. Unsure how to beat a professional gunfighter, quiet man Perry Marlow steps up to help Jack. It’s here the other Chambers hands learn that Perry’s gambler and gunfighter reputation spans from Baxter Springs, Kansas, to Fort Griffin, Texas. Perry teaches Jack that there’s a lot more to gunfighting than being fast.

153 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 20, 2023

About the author

I have been a writer of adventure novels of the Old West. I have now branched out to writing contemporary crime novels with a suspense/mystery base. What I feel makes these unique is that they are set in the modern West and Alaska, as opposed to exotic world and big city settings. They involve average people and local law enforcement agencies.

My writing influence comes from my ancestral roots. Mountain men, voyageurs, pioneers, and explorers make up the branches of my family tree. My paternal grandfather was Blackfoot Indian from Montana. My maternal grandfather was a Minnesota lumberjack, both men were born in the 1800’s.

As a lifelong outdoorsman I have inherited that pioneer blood and followed in the footsteps of both my families. I have experienced life in the Alaska bush, as well as the wilderness of the Rocky and Cascade Mountains, as a working cowboy, guide, horsepacker, hunter, and trapper.
I also spent several years as a Colorado Deputy Sheriff. This experience in the law enforcement field allows me an intimate insight to the system that I weave into my new crime genre stories.
I incorporate all of my experiences into my stories to ingrain them with authenticity and draw the reader into the story by their realism and a personal knowledge of the people and lifestyle involved.

I have near to 500 fiction and non-fiction works published. Included are: 19 novels and short story collections, 70 short stories, and inclusion in 18 anthologies. I am the first 3 time winner of the Will Rogers Medallion Award, in 2008 for Best Western Fiction, and again in 2013 for Best Western Humor, and 2014 for Best Western Novel. Nine of my short stories have earned Reader’s Choice Awards.

Reviews

[Charles Castell · Rating 5 out of 5]

This group of die hard honchos will definitely keep you turning pages to more entertainment!

Mr. Fisher did an amazing job with this five star sensation as these guys could handle anything the Brotherhood threw at them! Just one exciting endeavor after the other!
These storylines ate perfectly selected to entertain any reader, regardless of your reading preferences! A fast moving series of events of realistic old American western frontier extravaganza's! Too, the character selections are as entertaining as the storylines, both the good guys and the bad! The good guys takes the excitement to a next level, in their efforts to fortify their respective positions!
Definitely recommend this fast moving series of ongoing events to all readers, regardless of your normal reading preferences! I assure you will find yourselves riding along with this happy go lucky individuals in their efforts to protect themselves, and their families! Try it! Think you'll live it!!!😃

[Beverly Kee · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another awesome story in this series!

I love this authors writing and the bits of history at the end are so fun to read! This series is one of my favorite and hopefully many more will follow!

[Linda · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent read

Very good storyline with great characters and lots of action. A great addition to this series.would highly recommend this series and all other books written by this author.

[Chuck Sanborn · Rating 4 out of 5]

Proofing needed

This edition throws commas and quotation marks around like confetti. More commas than needed and random quotation marks that distract the reader. Add incorrect homonyms, e.g. fair/fare, and it's a mess.
The use of metaphors is nice.

[David Greenberg · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good, story, as, usual.

But the punctuation editor needs to be replaced. An inordinate number of distracting errors. Commas misplaced regularly. And a severe lack of distinction between "to", and "too".

[Rodney Blasingame · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good read. I liked the action in the story.

[Bud]

I loved the whole series. But the gunfighter left off without dealing with Foster! So no book 11?

[Mike Pearson · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great read

I got into the adventure and read the book in one day this author has a very good reason to keep on reading

[Peter Cornell · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great

A terrific read. The rest of the series was goof and this installment follows suit. Loved it! I'll finish the last one.

[Linda Chong · Rating 5 out of 5]

Reveting

Great reading, I recommend this book for young and old. Sound life lessons
I will go to book one. I look forward to more Dave P. Fisher books.