Five Star Western S.
6 total works
Here are seven of Peter Dawson's classic stories. In The Sweetest Draw, a newly sworn deputy sheriff faces estrangement from the woman he loves and disaster as he defends a wanted man. Also included are Bullet Cure, The Echo Herd, Gunpowder Campaign, and Showdown in Shadow.
The title story finds Ed Thorn ostracized from stage driving. Arriving in the mining community of Ledge, he is faced with saving the Seerfoot Stage Line from ruin. In Barbed Wire, Jim Lance tries to occupy a homestead he won in a poker game, only to face a rancher who intends to drive him away.
The heart of the American West lives in Peter Dawson's stories. His characters blaze a trail over the land of frontier dreams, across a country that was coming of age. From the attempt of an outlaw father to save the life of his son who has become an officer of the law, to a shotgun guard who is forced to choose between a seemingly impossible love and complicity in a stagecoach robbery, each of these seven stories embodies the dramatic struggles that made the American frontier so unique and its people the stuff of legends.