Buchanan's Big Showdown — Jonas Ward

“I just seen a man whup our entire police force. Tooken their guns away and just plain whupped 'em.”
That man was Buchanan. He wasn't looking for trouble. It came to him. When the crooked Dodge City deputies tried to push him around, he just naturally resented it. His way.
Right from the beginning, Buchanan was unhappy about the trip to Dodge. But his friend, the fighter Coco Bean, was after a big match there. It was a chance for him to win big.
What Buchanan didn't know was that a gang of cutthroats had their own plans for the fight. And that out in the prairie a murderous band of renegades and half breeds were plotting to destroy the whole town...

William Robert Cox (1901-1988) was a writer for more than sixty years, and published more than seventy-five novels and perhaps one thousand short stories, as well as more than 150 TV shows and several movies on film. He was well into his career, flooding the market with sports, crime, and adventure stories, when he turned to the western novel. He served twice as president of the Western Writers of America, and was writing his fifth Cemetery Jones novel, Cemetery Jones and the Tombstone War, when he passed away. He wrote under at least six pen names, including Willard d'Arcy, Mike Frederic, John Parkhill, Joel Reeve, Roger G. Spellman and, of course, Jonas Ward. Under the Ward byline, he wrote sixteen adventures in the Buchanan series, all of which will be published in ebook by Piccadilly Publishing.