Hunted Riders — Max Brand

If you shoot a man, and then throw his body in a ravine, and push five tons of rock on the corpse, you expect that man to be dead!

No wonder Danny Crossett turned white when he saw the silent form of “Doc” Tolliver riding behind him.

Danny Crossett and Lefty Dunlin had shot their way out of jail. Mounted on swift horses they escaped to the mountains with every man who could hold a gun hunting them. But the hunter they feared most was a cowpuncher who had been dead for a month.