Leslie Ernenwein

High Gun (Spur Award Winning Novel) Leslie Ernenwein

It was called Apache Basin, this raw, rough lonely land where the bones of many violently dead men had bleached white beneath a scorching sun. Against Apache Basin Jim Modeen pitted himself -- pitted his renegade streak, his cavalry courage, his hard-won savvy of wilderness danger. And pitted his gun. For a gun ruled Apache Basin, held in the iron fist of a man who dealt out death to any reckless enough to challenge him. But Jim Modeen took a lot of killing, as the ghosts of his enemies -- white and red -- could testify...

"Leslie Ernenwein (1900-1961) was a prolific, Spur award-winning author of westerns, penning more than 25 novels and well over 130 short stories. He also worked as a feature writer for the Tucson Daily Citizen.