This is the ballad of Matt Evans, who rode in from Texas with smoking six-guns and a brother he wanted to forget. And of Bide Evans, who swore to bring law and order to a town that knew only trigger-rule and vigilante vengeance. And the high noon of that day when «the gunsmoke brothers» faced each other in the dusty street of Hangman's Gulch.<P> AN EXPLOSIVE STORY BY THE DEAN OF AMERICA’S WESTERN NOVELISTS
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Matt Rand. The Sheriff of Hangman's Gulch
The SHERIFF of. HANGMAN’S. GULCH
1. Night Attack
2. Hangman’s Gulch
3. Claim-Jumpers
4. Election Night
5. Wanted: Matt Evans
6. Brothers Meet
7. Vigilantes
8. The Trial
9. Counter Plan
10. On the Move
11. Visitor’s Day
12. Shifting Plays
13. The Hideout
14. Ming Foy
15. Murder
16. Sheriff Evans Takes Over
17. Turned Tables
18. Showdown
19. The Red Wig
20. Favor for a Favor
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MATT RAND
Wiping the sweat off his forehead, Hale set to work with pick and shovel. In flood season, the boulder had been submerged by the stream, and the top gravel the miner now shoveled aside was still damp.
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He took a chair and sat down; but kept his face well beyond the flickering range of the candle. Jim Wurt’s nocturnal visitors invariably kept to the shadows. Only the newcomer’s hands, huge and hairy, showed against his black trousers.
“Well?” Wurt was standing expectantly. On his feet, the saloon-owner was not a tall man.