Présentation de l'éditeur
JUST that Phillip Thurston is the son of Bill Thurston—“bullwhacker, prospector, follower of dim trails”—does not mean that he is ready to rope, ride, and shoot. Hank Graves, owner of the Lazy Eight and long-time, long-ago partner of Bill Thurston, knows it’s in his blood if he’ll give it a chance. Hank calls him “Bud,” his name as a five-year-old when his dad met his death and his mother took him back East. Now Bud is a citified writer whose only interest is to absorb western “facts” so that he can sell his stories. A week or two as Hank’s guest, however, and Bud wonders how he can ever live again in the confines of a great city. He wants the whole Western experience—not just for writing material—he wants the life, the good of it and the bad. Already he has seen the worst of it—and has been called a coward by Mona Stevens because he did not have the cowboy skill or nature to seize a dead man’s gun and kill the killer. Bud Thurston does become a real cowboy. He is driven to learn. Now he is willing to shoot—and does when necessary, but not with much effect. One day he will be able to shoot like Park Holloway. He is not a coward. Maybe he’ll have the opportunity to prove it to Mona Stevens.
Biographie de l'auteur
Bertha Muzzy Sinclair or Sinclair-Cowan, née Muzzy (November 15, 1871 – July 23, 1940), best known by her pseudonym B. M. Bower, was an American author who wrote novels, fictional short stories, and screenplays about the American Old West.
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