Golden Riders [Paperback]

Arizona Ranger Sam Burrack has something of a reputation for finishing what he sets out to do—usually with a shot from his Winchester. He’d been on the trail of five gunmen for days. Then there was four. And he doesn’t plan on stopping until every member of the notorious Golden Riders is behind bars or underground.
 
But when a few of the riders escape in a jailbreak, word gets back to gang leader Braxton Kane that his brother fell under the gun of a lawman. Now Burrack is both hunter and hunted, and if he doesn’t live up to his reputation, he won’t live very long.…Praise for the novels of Ralph Cotton

“One of the best Western writers today.”—Western Horseman

“A storyteller in the best tradition of the Old West.”—Golden Spur Award–Winning Author Matt Braun
 
“Cotton’s blend of history and imagination works because authentic Old West detail and dialogue fill his books.”—Wild West Magazine

“[Cotton’s] works incorporate…pace and plot in a language that ranges from lyric beauty to macabre descriptions of bestial savagery.”—Wade Hall,The Louisville Courier-Journal
 
“Gun-smoked believability…a hard hand to beat.”—Terry JohnstonRalph Cottonis a former ironworker, second mate on a commercial barge, teamster, horse trainer, and lay minister with the Lutheran church. He is the author ofDark Horses,Shadow River, andTwisted Hills.

JUMPING THE GUN

SIGNET

PART 1

Chapter 1

The Badlands, Arizona Territory

Arizona Ranger Sam Burrack rode a thin, steep game trail up through a maze of large squat boulders and tall standing chimney rock. At the top of the trail there would be four gunmen waiting for him. He was certain of it. There had been five gunmen stlÃf