The Devil's Dooryard

In the dust-choked streets of a frontier town where the law is just another rumor, two cowpunchers find themselves caught between a rancher's grudge and a woman worth killing for. Hashknife Hartley and Sleepy Stevens aren't looking for trouble, but trouble has a way of finding men who ride into the wrong town at the right time. When a simmering feud between rival ranches explodes into gun smoke and threatened lynchings, the two friends must choose: ride out and save their skins, or stand fast and see which side of the fence they really belong on. The devil's dooryard, they say, is where the bad men go, but first you have to get there. Tuttle writes with the punchy rhythm of a six-gun: fast, direct, never wasting a word. This is early Western fiction at its core, action, honor among thieves, and the particular kind of love that blooms in the shadow of a hanging tree. For readers who want their Westerns raw and their endings hard-won.