Showdown at Two-Bit Creek

In this Ralph Compton western, home is a battlefield....

Buck Fletcher, infamous shootist, was once a boy raised in a cabin near Two-Bit Creek in Montana. Returning home to pay his respects at his parents' graves, Buck finds an unconscious woman in the woods--bleeding from a head wound. She might be the victim of a range war that's brewing in the territory.

Buck soon finds himself drawn into the escalating conflict--courted by one side, threatened by the other. What the feuding ranchers don't realize is that Buck's guns aren't for sale--and if anyone gives him trouble, he'll start shooting lead for free....

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Author: Joseph A. West, Ralph Compton
Publisher: Berkley Books
Published: 12/02/2014
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 6.66h x 7.00w x 0.78d
ISBN13: 9780451208545
ISBN10: 0451208544
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Westerns | General
- Fiction | Action & Adventure
- Fiction | Historical | General

About the Author
Ralph Compton stood six-foot-eight without his boots. He worked as a musician, a radio announcer, a songwriter, and a newspaper columnist. His first novel, The Goodnight Trail, was a finalist for the Western Writers of America Medicine Pipe Bearer Award for best debut novel. He was also the author of the Sundown Rider series and the Border Empire series.

As a little boy growing up in a small fishing village in Scotland, Joseph West enjoyed many happy Saturday mornings at the local cinema in the company of Roy and Gene and Hoppy. His lifelong ambition was to become a cowboy, but he was sidetracked by a career in law enforcement and journalism. He now resides with his wife and daughter in Palm Beach, Florida, where he enjoys horse riding, cowboy action shooting, and studying Western history.