His name was Daniel Provost, and it was the time of the Texas Republic. He had been a farm boy, and his heroes were the people who had died defending the Alamo. Without quite knowing why, he wanted desperately to have at least one adventure before setting for life behind a plow. When Milo Seldon came riding in with his packmules loaded with contraband tobacco to sell across the border in Mexico, Daniel naturally wanted to give a helping hand, especially when it became clear tha Milo was being followed by two unwholesome characters who claimed the packmules as their own property. Fortunately for Daniel, when he went thundering off into the sunset on his plowhorse, he thought to pack a gun. After all, he hadn't been a hardscrabble farmer for nothing...
- ISBN13 9780765343031
- Publish Date 14 April 2003 (first published 1 February 1983)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 19 October 2003
- Publish Country US
- Imprint St Martin's Press
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 192
- Language English