Night of the Rustler's Moon

by Lauran Paine

Amos McCarthy has owned and operated the Rafter M Ranch for at least thirty years in the upland ranges of Wyoming. In the beginning, renegade Indian bands had harassed him. Amos gained a fearsome reputation as a rancher who would tolerate no depredation. He even became skilled at prowling Indian-style at night, killing unsuspecting predators with a knife. Later came rustlers and Amos dealt with them in the same way, hanging those who survived his armed offensives. Even though now an older man, he has lost none of his determination to give no quarter to rustler bands.

190 pages, Hardcover

Published December 1, 2015

About the author

aka John Armour, Reg Batchelor, Kenneth Bedford, Frank Bosworth, Mark Carrel, Claude Cassady, Richard Clarke, Richard Dana, J F Drexler, Troy Howard, Jared Ingersol, John Kilgore, Hunter Liggett, J K Lucas, John Morgan (many more).

Lauran Bosworth Paine (born February 25, 1916 in Duluth, Minnesota – 2003 in California) was an American writer of Western fiction. Paine wrote over 900 books, including hundreds of Westerns as well as romance, science fiction, and mystery novels. He also wrote a number of non-fiction books on the Old West, military history, witchcraft, and other subjects.

His apprenticeship as a Western writer came about through the years he spent in the livestock trade, rodeos, and even motion pictures where he served as an extra because of his expert horsemanship.

Reviews

[david · Rating 3 out of 5]

A typical "duster"...

[Jon Beddow · Rating 5 out of 5]

Best Western I've read! If you stumble across a copy of this novel. Read it