Forgotten Destiny

by Peter Dawson

This trio of novellas, which capture the struggle and peril of the Old West, includes the title story in which Bill Duncan, on the way to help a friend avoid foreclosure, is shot and left for dead, becoming the pawn in a crooked sheriff's game to claim his friend's land as his own. Reprint.

218 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 2002

About the author

Peter is the pen name of author Jonathan Hurff Glidden. He was born in Kewanee, Illinois, in 1907, and studied English literature at the University of Illinois. In his career as a Western author, Glidden published sixteen Western novels and over one hundred and twenty short novels and short stories for the magazine market. His first novel, The Crimson Horseshow, won the Dodd, Mead Prize as the 1941 Best Western of the Year. He died in 1957.

Note: "Peter Dawson" was also a pen name used by Frederick Faust (better known another of his pen names, Max Brand). Care should be taken when attributing books.

Reviews

[Barker · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very well written with plenty of twists in the story