The Guns of Summer — Lauran Paine

THE MEN OF SHERIDAN

Freighters find a welcome in Sheridan. So do ranchers. No one's encountered Indians in the county for a whole while. Today stockmen have free run of the plain without reason to look over their shoulders. The town's marshal is Joe Fogarty, a bachelor still this side of forty and thoroughly capable. Its most solid citizens are Hugh Pepperdine, former army scout, mule skinner, and peace officer, now local saddle maker, and James McGregor, the gunsmith with the bullheaded set to his jaw. Together this odd trio make up the wildest bunch in all New Mexico.

DEFENDERS OF THE LAW

The notorious Hy Simpson gang travels south, raiding banks along the way. It so happens that the Sheridan Bank & Trust Company lies smack in their path. But between this tempting target and the safety of the Mexican border stands the foursquare team of Fogarty, Pepperdine, and McGregor. And not even a hot rain of lead can make them budge.