Tarnished Star

by Lewis B. Patten

The Big Four ruled a cattle empire. They were men who had fought and killed to win the land from the Comanches and now they weren't going to turn it over to government squatters...not even if the law demanded it. Violence and murder explode on the plains of New Mexico when Martin Kelso returns home after a two-year absence. Cattlemen are ruthlessly driving squatters from their rightful homesteads, and the sheriff, Martin's father, has become a useless, bottle-hugging drunk. The law is dead in Rio de Oro...until the sheriff's son decides to take it into his own hands, to fight them all, to bring back honor to the sheriff's star!

Genres: Westerns

Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1963

About the author

aka Lewis Ford, Len Leighton, Joseph Wayne (with Wayne D. Overholser)

Lewis Byford Patten was a prolific author of American Western Novels, born in Denver, Colorado. Often published under the names Lewis Ford, Len Leighto and, Joseph Wayne.

Reviews

[Robert Andres]

This was intense. I'll never again judge a book by its page count 'cause this has all the thrill, suspense, and drama in it's 128 pages as a book four times its size. It took me five days to read because I stopped for a day half way through when I sensed something bad was going to happen to Mart and his father and I was genuinely concerned for their well being.