Man from Butte City — Lauran Paine

Author Lauran Bosworth Paine (born February 25, 1916) is an American writer of Western fiction. He was born in Duluth, Minnesota. Paine often wrote under the names: John Armour, Reg Batchelor, Kenneth Bedford, Frank Bosworth, Mark Carrel, Robert Clarke, Richard Dana, J F Drexler, Troy Howard, Jared Ingersol, John Kilgore, Hunter Liggett, J K Lucas, John Morgan. Excerpt from book: Main character Bent Sutton was hiring out his gun for the first time, but he was bothered when he met his new boss and recognized him as someone he hated as much as he hated any man.