Iron Marshal

by Lauran Paine

In Lost Valley, the Lost Valley Ranch is a far-reaching empire founded by James Hyland, advanced by his son Angus Hyland, and inherited in the third generation by Douglas Hyland. Sheriff Evan Hatfield is a fair-minded man who wants to maintain the peace. This intention is challenged with the arrival of a homesteader who was issued a claim along Arapaho Creek by the Land Office in Denver. Douglas Hyland has documents in Spanish that support his claims to both sides of Arapaho creek, but he must make a trip to correct the error at the Land Office. New claimants arrive while he is gone and no one is going to stop them from moving onto their claims and building structures — not the aggressive crew of Lost Valley Ranch and certainly not the sheriff.

256 pages, Hardcover

First published January 19, 2011

About the author

aka John Armour, Reg Batchelor, Kenneth Bedford, Frank Bosworth, Mark Carrel, Claude Cassady, Richard Clarke, Richard Dana, J F Drexler, Troy Howard, Jared Ingersol, John Kilgore, Hunter Liggett, J K Lucas, John Morgan (many more).

Lauran Bosworth Paine (born February 25, 1916 in Duluth, Minnesota – 2003 in California) was an American writer of Western fiction. Paine wrote over 900 books, including hundreds of Westerns as well as romance, science fiction, and mystery novels. He also wrote a number of non-fiction books on the Old West, military history, witchcraft, and other subjects.

His apprenticeship as a Western writer came about through the years he spent in the livestock trade, rodeos, and even motion pictures where he served as an extra because of his expert horsemanship.