Tim McGuire – författare

In the search for his elusive fortune, Rance finds himself in Denver searching for gold. But when he gets an urgent wire asking him to help spring his friend, Jody Barnes, out of jail, the riverboat gambler heads to the queen of the Kansas cow towns—Abilene.   When he gets there, Rance realizes much has changed in this once quaint “city of the plains.” The railroad has brought prosperity to the town, but the smell of money has attracted an invasion of Texas Cowboys and their cattle, along with the likes of Jesse James and John Wesley Hardin. Everyone wants to take the law into their own hands, but the legendary Marshal Bill Hickok isn’t used to taking orders—from anybody. With trouble brewing between “Wild Bill” and the unruly Texans, Rance is determined to set his friend Jody free, even if the powderkeg of  town politics explodes in all out warfare...

Rance Cash’s life calling is to leech off the guileless. But this time around, he believes he’s won $10,000 fair and square—and he’s taken it upon himself to chase down whoever swiped it. His horse will take him across Texas to New Mexico. And his adventures will take him from impersonating a lawyer to helping a snake-oil salesman.   But Rance isn’t entirely blameless. He still owes the Barneses, a down-on-their-luck farming family, quite a sum. The only way son Jody Barnes can think to save their remaining cattle from a mysterious, fatal disease is to round ’em all up and hightail it north. And if, on the way, he should encounter a familiar gambler, this greenhorn is more than ready to take him on.