Linford Western Library
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He rode for his own brand of justice...Texas rancher Ben Langham left his sprawling inheritance to the man he trusted most: Luke Starbuck. Once Starbuck had dreamed of owning land of his own. Now he was more interested in finding out who gunned down Ben Langham. With the Cattlemen's Association behind him, Starbuck has all the authority he needs to ride into New Mexico on the path of a murderous band of thieves. But he didn't count on coming face to face with a scrawny killer named William "the Kid' Bonney, a shifty sheriff named Pat Garrett, or the true story behind the legendary Lincoln County War. Suddenly, Luke Starbuck is up against more than a killer or two. He's striking at a conspiracy that reaches into the heart of power - and to a handful of men who have already decided that Luke Starbuck must die...
Hangman's Creek is the first book in the Luke Starbuck series. Braun has received the Western Writers of America Golden Spur Award for his bestselling epic The Kincaids. In addition to a strong reissue programme, we have recently published original Braun titles, including The Kincaids, Doc Holliday, Gentleman Rogue, Hickok and Cody, and The Wild Ones. Braun's newsletter reaches hundreds of booksellers and fans. Matt Braun is the recipient of The Cowboy Spirit Award in March of 2000 and was inducted into the Cowboy Hall of Fame.
In 1878, a struggling prospector found silver in the jagged mountains of Arizona. Within a year the town of Tombstone was filling up with merchants, tradesmen, gamblers, whores and gunslingers. And then the Earp family came to Tombstone - five brothers with their women and their wives. Along with Doc Holliday and a band of thieves, Wyatt Earp treated the Arizona territory as his personal stomping grounds - until Wells Fargo decided to put an end to the string of savage stage robberies. With the legend of the OK Corral shootout fanning out across the frontier, private detective Luke Starbuck was sent to Tombstone to find the truth. And when he got there, Starbuck's mission turned into one burning, personal obsession: to kill Wyatt Earp...