Wayne D. Overholser won three Spur Awards from the Western Writers of America and has a long list of fine Western titles to his

credit. Buckaroo's Code was his first Western novel and remains one of his best. Overholser's Western novels are based on a solid

knowledge of the history and customs of the 19th-Century West, particularly when set in his two favorite Western states, Oregon and

Colorado. Almost invariably, his stories weave a spell of their own with their scenes and images of social and economic forces often in

conflict and the diverse ways of life and personalities that made the American Western frontier so unique a time and place in human

history.