Bryce Bradford had killed a friend of the powerful men of Buffalo Run, yet they made him sheriff. Why? The mystery woman who was half owner of the saloon had a beckoning eye for him. What was her game? The answers are hidden in the past.
From Wikipedia: Walt Coburn (1889-1971) was an American writer of Westerns. Coburn was born in White Sulphur Springs, Montana Territory, the son of Robert Coburn Senior, the founder of the noted Circle C Ranch.
Coburn served in the military in the First World War. He later spent time as a cowboy and a surveyor, before becoming a full-time writer in the 1920s.