The Outlaws of Mesquite: Stories [Paperback]

Meet the frontier bad men—like Leo Carver—a man so hated that everyone in the town of Canyon Gap planned to turn up for his hanging. Then meet those who dared to challenge them—like Marshal Lou Morgan, who tried to save his citizens from a goldmine swindler, only to learn that his own code of honesty made him the biggest sucker in town. There's champion rodeo rider Marty Mahan, called a coward because he was afraid of the bronc Ghost Maker—until he showed them the true color of his courage. Here are classic tales of the West from the storyteller who brings to vivid life the brave men of women who settled the North American frontier.Our foremost storyteller of the American West,Louis L’Amourhas thrilled a nation by chronicling the adventures of the brave men and woman who settled the frontier. There are more than three hundred million copies of his books in print around the world.THE OUTLAWS OF MESQUITE
 
MILT COGAR WAS at the corral catching the paint when Thacker walked down from the store. “You’d better get out of this town, boy. They are fixin’ to make trouble for you.”
 
Milt turned around and looked at the big, clumsy man, his shirt stuffed into his trousers and held there by a rope belt. Thacker never seemed to have a full beard and always seemed to need a shave. His watery blue eyes looked vague. He rolled his quid in his jaws and spat.
 
“It’s what I’m tellin’ you, son. You done me a favor or two.”
 
“Why should they be after me?” Cogar demanded. He was a lean young man with a dark, leatherlike face. His eyes were almost black, and keen.
 
“Spencer wants your horses. You know that. He sets a sight of store by good horseflesh, and he’s had a thorn in his side ever since you rode into the valley. Anyway, you’re a stranger, and this country don’t cotton to strangers.”