Moon Prairie

by Lauran Paine

Seth mounted and glanced up the hill. What he saw horrified him. The Flatheads were streaming down towards them. They erupted into wild war-cries, brandishing their bows, sending their mounts in a recklessly wild plunge down the slippery hillside. 'Run for it!' Jules yelled and bent low over his horse's neck. They lit out by the way they had come. The pair were riding neck-and-neck, faces taught and defiant. Seth twisted backwards and tried to estimate the numbers pursuing them. There were at least eight Flatheads, probably more. Eight, nine, ten...There was no time to make sure.

156 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1950

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.